The benefit would be encapsulation.

Yes, Cake is stopping me:

WHen I try to set $validate to private in my Category model, I get the
following error:
"Access level to Category::$validate must be public (as in class
AppModel)"

On Oct 1, 2:25 pm, AD7six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 1, 12:29 pm, stefanb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Yes, but couldn't set/get methods still have been implemented, so that
> > Cake would be forward compatible?
>
> To what benefit (apart from bloat)?
>
> There is nothing stopping you from defining fields to be private, or
> writing get/set methods if you must.
>
> Cheers,
>
> AD


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