On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:30:35 -0600 Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's a matter of taste ... some people prefer to use accessors for
> everything, other people prefer to expose the underlying structure
> directly.
Experience tells us that when you use accessors you end up thanking
yourself later on. Especially when diddling struct page ;)
Although one really should make a best-effort guess at "how likely is
this to change in the future". If the implementation-to-be-copied
has been out there for a while then "not very" is a good answer.
But hey, don't listen to me - I like C++, and approve of Java.
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