Use of 'get' and 'set' prefixes : Package Body « Function Procedure Packages « Oracle PL/SQL Tutorial

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2. Function Procedure Packages
3. Package Body

SQL>
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE myDate
  2  IS
  3     PROCEDURE set_mydate (date_in IN DATE);
  4     FUNCTION get_mydate RETURN DATE;
  5  END myDate;
  6  /

Package created.

SQL>
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY myDate
  2  IS
  3     g_mydate DATE;
  4
  5     PROCEDURE set_mydate (date_in IN DATE)
  6     IS
  7     BEGIN
  8        g_mydate := date_in;
  9     END;
 10
 11     FUNCTION get_mydate RETURN DATE
 12     IS
 13     BEGIN
 14        RETURN g_mydate;
 15     END;
 16  END myDate;
 17  /

Package body created.

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