Anything related to mutators (a.k.a. setters, or mutator methods) in object oriented programming, i.e. instance methods whose exclusive purpose is to change (part of) the internal state of an object to a specific value, without performing substantial additional processing.. This may also refer to mutator functions in non-OO languages when OOP techniques are used to emulate OOP-like encapsulation.
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Anything related to mutators (a.k.a. setters, or mutator/setter methods) in Object Oriented Programming, i.e. instance methods whose exclusive purpose is to change (part of) the internal state of an object to a specific value, without performing substantial additional processing. This may also refer to mutator functions in non-OO languages when OOP techniques are used to emulate OOP-like encapsulation.