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by hackandtrip 1553 days ago
What's the difference between that, and just using a private variable?

Languages may not be able to restrict the operations you make on certain variables even if they are private, and even if you should use only public interface, it always happens that you try to tinker with libraries internals to get your hack working... Having this explicit in the name to me is just a stronger repetition of this concept!