On 1 December 2011 12:50, henrib <hen...@apache.org> wrote: > Both 'parameters' and 'cancelled' are protected so they can be used by > derived classes easily; having a private field + protected setter and getter > is clutter in this specific case.
The problem with mutable non-private fields is that they are non-OO; they violate data encapsulation rules. They make it much harder to debug problems where the field is being updated incorrectly. Using getter/setter requires very little extra code, but brings big benefits. > Parameters holds the register 'names' which proves useful when debugging; > the 2 arrays are parallel. OK, so that needs to be documented. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
