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0 pointsUK-AL9y ago0 comments

Problem is developers take that as an excuse to make state public, which is even worse.

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It doesn't matter whether you make the state public via a getter or via variables (modulo some compiler specific reasons to use accessors).

If your design is allowing some external actor to work with multiple parts of the state of a behavior driven object (ie not a record) accessors are not going to help you, you've still exposed the state.

UK-ALOP9y ago

Completely agree.

But at least with getters/setters you can intercept calls before they modify state.

But you should design so you don't need this in the first place.

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