NYCPHP Meetup

[David Mintz]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, David Mintz wrote:
> > I might be missing something, but if you want people to be able to get and
> > set your props directly, why not just make them public and be done with
> > it?
>
> Because it breaks encapsulation. Using accessors allows you to modify
> how you store/validate/etc. properties in your class without changing
> the public interface to the data.


Ahh, I see. Fun-duh-mental. So what might look like pro forma
encapsulation today might be another story tomorrow.

Thanks.

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David Mintz
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