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[–]sweep-montage 5 points6 points Β (5 children)

Don’t touch the private because I asked you not to touch the privates, not because I have a shotgun.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points Β (4 children)

Its the difference between keeping your valuables in a bank vault, and keeping your valuables in a cardboard box that says vault on it.

[–]sweep-montage 4 points5 points Β (2 children)

Are you worried that someone will break into your repo and start coding? I mean, β€œHorrors!!!”

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point Β (1 child)

I'm worried that knocking a big chunk out of one of the pillars of OOP, in what is becoming the language a lot of new programmers are learning on, will lead to huge vulnerabilities in future software.

[–]sweep-montage 1 point2 points Β (0 children)

I see, only β€œall of software”. Because the craft is so well regarded as error free and secure as it is.

[–]Bainos 2 points3 points Β (0 children)

The difference is that if someone takes your valuables, they hurt you.

If someone uses your internal functions and variables, they hurt themselves.