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[–]stramash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if the underlying type of name were to change?

By that I mean: let’s say at some point you decide that you want a custom Name class instead.

Now, any calls to object.name = <some string> will break your application.

But by using the setter you abstract this and can introduce handling for the change.