bad programming style to change the state of the object by using the get accessor

[Manoj Gokhale]

Hello

I had a doubt as to why the following code is a bad programming style . It is from MSDN Documentation


It is a bad programming style to change the state of the object by using the get accessor. For example, the following accessor produces the side effect of changing the state of the object every time that the number field is accessed.

private int number;


publicint Number
{
get
{
return number++; // Don't do this
}
}

regards

Manoj Gokhale

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