getters and setters style

Question

(Leaving aside the question of should you have them at all.)

I have always preferred to just use function overloading to give you the same name for both getter and s

Answer 1

I'll go ahead and mention this should be a community wiki question.

When I started learning C++ I looked for style guides, and Google's was good for some points:

• Methods in uppercase (it's just prettier).
• getters plainly and lowecase (rate).
• setters explicitly and lowercase (setRate).