instance fields have getters by default about agate HOT 2 CLOSED

does this sound like a good idea?

It's not a good or a bad idea, it's a design choice. I prefer the current state for the following reason: encapsulation is stronger and if you want to expose a field, you have to opt in and write a getter. Making all fields public by default would be exactly the contrary, you would have to propose something to opt out (naming rule, keyword or something else).

At one point, I thought about introducing something like attr_reader/attr_writer/attr_accessor from Ruby. But in the end, writing x { @x } is shorter and more explicit than attr_reader x.

from agate.

Okay, then. Never mind...

from agate.