On Jan 21, 7:03 am, BillyRay <[email protected]> wrote:
> What are the rules or guidelines for deciding when it is appropriate
> to use the getter/setter methods to access instance variables in
> another method inside of a class versus accessing the variables
> directly?
It is always better to access variables with getter and setter
methods. This way, you ensure they cannot be accessed directly. If you
use Netbeans, there is a refactor task which allows you to transform
your code to always do that.
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