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This protects you from changes to the internal representation of state in the future. Direct field access totally blows away encapsulation.

• grishka 5y ago
  So, uh, do a usage search before changing stuff? You'll have to, anyway.
  • kaba0 5y ago
    Not necessarily agree with private fields, but that is not an option for library writers.
  • erik_seaberg 5y ago
    That works if your class is never used outside your own organization, but the API of published code needs to be changed more gracefully using semver.