[westoncb]

  getArea() {
    return this.width * this.height;  
  }

  getIcon() {
    // if icon hasn't been loaded, load it
    return this.icon;
  }

[weberc2]

Those aren’t abstractions... Also, I’m not arguing that you can’t contrive an abstraction around a getter, I’m arguing that it’s useful to do so (so please spare me contrived examples!).