My textbook defined a mutator method as a method that modifies the object on which it operates.
And, it defines an accessor method as a a method that queries the object for some information without changing it.
Am I correct in saying nextInt is an accessor method?
My reasoning is that nextInt does not modify the object on which it operates. If I have created a Scanner object called in, when I write "int a = in.nextInt();" it does not modify the actual Scanner object. Instead, it is used as a kind of getter method to assign a value to a.
Actually, from the javadoc:
public int nextInt(int radix)
Scans the next token of the input as an int. This method will throw InputMismatchException if the next token cannot be translated into a valid int value as described below. If the translation is successful, the scanner advances past the input that matched.
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This tells that the state of the scanner is altered after calling the method. So this makes nextInt a mutator.
Therefore, nextInt is both a mutator and an accesor.