Carsten Ziegeler wrote: <snip/>
I hope this makes sense :) if not at all, we can revert it.
Not exactly; see Sylvain's response and in addition to it please recall a vote about flow model "add only very necessary things instead of adding all and everything you can think of" (majority agreed with the vote). Parallel between this flow vote and java private/protected members is easy to see: have everything private and open up only very necessary stuff. And, preferably, open up via accessor methods.
Vadim
