I tend to not mind using getters and setters, but I don't create one for every internal variable in a class. I consider "universal" getters and setters (which I

I tend to not mind using getters and setters, but I don't create one for every internal variable in a class. I consider "universal" getters and setters (which I take to mean one getter and setter for every variable in every class) to be an absurd idea, like something taken to the logical extreme just to piss someone off. Perhaps a lot of people don't like using or writing getters and setters because it's cumbersome if the only code in them is an assignment/return statement. Maybe something like providing Ruby's attr_reader/attr_writer/attr_accessor to create these boilerplate getters and setters is what is required. Also in Ruby all member variables are private, so methods are always needed to access them.