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Encapsulation is the principle of bundling software elements in a way to hide implementation details and to expose only a known interface.

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Why do some projects have getters and setters for public instance variables?

It sounds like the authors of the class were confused or changed their minds half-way through writing it. In most cases, public attributes are a 'bad thing', and public accessors are the way to go: th …
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