Timeline for Arduino Libraries: Declaring variables as public?

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May 5, 2018 at 22:37	comment	added	Pharap		I'd like to challenge the premise of this question. Some Arduino classes do expose their member variables as `public`. For example EERef exposes `index`, as does EEPtr. Additonally, some classes declare their member variables as `protected`so that inheriting clases can make use of them. The main reason though is usually because functions allow side effects to happen.
May 5, 2018 at 21:13	vote	accept	Henry
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May 5, 2018 at 19:03	comment	added	Gerben		Sometimes setting a variable isn't enough, as the library might have to do some additional thing with that new value. E.g. when setting the `size` of a buffer object, that object would also need to allocate memory for this (new) size. As far as I can see C++ doesn't have true getters and setters like other programming languages. getters and setters would make it seem like you are setting a variable, but will actually call a function.
May 5, 2018 at 18:48	answer	added	ratchet freak		timeline score: 3
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