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IMHO, there's nothing particularly wrong with having a public class whose sole purpose is to expose public variables. Indeed, the JVM has a number of built-in classes for that purpose: int[], double[], Object[], etc. One should, however, be very careful about how one exposes instances of such a class. The meaning of void CopyLocationTo(Point p); [accepting a Point from the caller] is clearer than Point location(), since it's unclear what effect Point pt = foo.location(); pt.x ++; will have on the location of foo.

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2013-12-23 20:39:50 +00:00
Commented Dec 23, 2013 at 20:39

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