I didn’t intend to start an “is evil” series, but several readers asked me to explain why I mentioned that you should avoid get/set methods in last month’s column, “Why extends Is Evil.” Though getter ...

It’s a 25-year-old principle of object-oriented (OO) design that you shouldn’t expose an object’s implementation to any other classes in the program. The program is unnecessarily difficult to maintain ...

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