What do you call functions which get and set?

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Published on 2010-04-09T05:39:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 5:43 UTC
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The jQuery framework has a lot of functions which will either retrieve or mutate values depending on the parameters passed:

$(this).html();       // get the html
$(this).html('blah'); // set the html

Is there a standard name for functions which behave like this?

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