Using those Methods (usually called Setter and Getter) are used in many OO-Languages.
It gives you the opporunity to Check any of the values you want to set.
It gives you the opporunity to return values independent of your base implementation of the class.
One of the Basic priniples in OO ist to keep the inner values a secret, and let in only change by the methods you want it to.
unfortunately this is not really implemented in bmax, c# and java use modiefiers so you can simply change the permission of every single class member
It gives you the opporunity to Check any of the values you want to set.
It gives you the opporunity to return values independent of your base implementation of the class.
One of the Basic priniples in OO ist to keep the inner values a secret, and let in only change by the methods you want it to.
unfortunately this is not really implemented in bmax, c# and java use modiefiers so you can simply change the permission of every single class member
SuperStrict Type TAlien Field health:Int = 1 Method PrintHealth() Abstract Method GetHealth:Int() Abstract Method SetHealth(health:Int) Abstract EndType Type TAlienSmall Extends TALien Field health:Int = 2 Method PrintHealth() Print "Method PH in TAlienSmall" End Method Method GetHealth:Int() Return health EndMethod Method SetHealth(health:Int) Self.health = health EndMethod End Type Type TAlienBig Extends TAlien Field health:Int = 3 Method PrintHealth() Print "Method PH in TAlienBig" End Method Method GetHealth:Int() Return health EndMethod Method SetHealth(health:Int) Self.health = health EndMethod End Type ' Main Local alienlist:TList = New TList Local as:Talien = New TAlienSmall Local ab:TAlien = New TAlienBig alienlist.AddLast(as) alienlist.AddLast(ab) For Local alien:TAlien = EachIn alienlist alien.PrintHealth Print alien.GetHealth() Next