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in thread Prevent direct acces to object's attributes

Are you really expecting that end-users would deliberately set out to do things that are bad for them?

I guess that's the very personality model that some other languages (e.g. Java) hold of their programmers/end-users... ;)

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by CountZero (Bishop) on Sep 07, 2009 at 20:27 UTC
    And isn't that exactly why some --such as me-- consider Java to be evil?

    CountZero

    A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James