On 11/19/22 01:43, [] () {} () wrote:

> do it your way for the next 10 years, and
> I bet you will eventually come to a different point of view ;-)

Hm... I am responding without reading the rest of the thread so I don't know whether you've mentioned the 10 years more but here it goes: I hope 11 years will be sufficient to stop following guidelines blindly. Especially this specific one where a posted video has shown how wasteful it can be.

> if you're just a hobyist programmer, then you're really free to do as
> you please.

I am a professional programmer and I do not write public accessors blindly. As stated before, they are written only when there is an invariant to protect.

> but if you are a software engineer employed by a company, within a team
> of other software engineers, then you have to a have framework that you
> *all* work against.

Agreed.

> anyone who says otherwise, doesn't know what they're talking about.

Agreed.

> In my team, 'classes' do not have public member variables. not ever.

I am not working there! :) And what about structs? ;)

> another team is free to do as it pleases of course ;-)

Thanks. :)

> but members of that team will have a hard time getting into my team.

Mutual feelings there...

Ali

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