Some of these things are simply to "nanny" us, but there's a very good reason for private / protected: The Namespace is a precious and limited resource. It's a

Some of these things are simply to "nanny" us, but there's a very good reason for private / protected: The Namespace is a precious and limited resource. It's a good-thing(tm) not to pollute it with internal details, and what is unexposed need not be well-named, which is after all one of the 2 hard problems (along with cache invalidation and fencepost errors).