If you really try to make the OO as beautiful as humanly possible, you neither make the member variables public nor do you offer getters and setters. Everything

If you really try to make the OO as beautiful as humanly possible, you neither make the member variables public nor do you offer getters and setters. Everything is realized by functions which have a meaning, you really give the class the power to manage itself, not be managed from the outside with getters and setters! If you successfully adopt this thinking pattern then you have so many problems less...