Question

I’d like to know whether, when I am coding a class, I should use getters and setters to access other instance variables (or just call them by their names). I think this creates unecessary noise, but I’d like to hear what you guys have to say about it.

Answer 1

Code internal to the class can always access the private members without using the set and get methods for clarity that it is it’s own members in use. Just my 2 cents.

Also you can consider: http://codenaut.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-avoid-getter-and-setter-methods.html