Programmers often complain about the verbosity of Java. Once you specify all the modifiers that must be applied, it’s not difficult to see how it can quickly become verbose:<\/p>\n
\r\npublic static void veryLongNamingConventions() {\r\n \/\/ ...\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\nJS++ does this differently. Following the OOP principle of encapsulation<\/a>, JS++ provides convenient default rules for access modifiers<\/a>.<\/p>\nBy default, only fields (variable members of classes) are private<\/a><\/code>. All other class members – such as methods, getters, setters, and constructors – are public<\/a><\/code> by default.<\/p>\nThis makes it very easy to write concise code:<\/p>\n
\r\nclass Point\r\n{\r\n int x, y;\r\n\r\n Point(int x, int y) {\r\n this.x = x;\r\n this.y = y;\r\n }\r\n\r\n int getX() { return this.x; }\r\n int getY() { return this.y; }\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\nIn the above code, the fields x<\/code> and y<\/code> are private. Meanwhile, the constructor and the getX\/getY methods are all public. We can be explicit and manually specify the access modifiers, but it’s not necessary<\/em> in JS++.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Programmers often complain about the verbosity of Java. Once you specify all the modifiers that must be applied, it’s not difficult to see how it can quickly become verbose: public static void veryLongNamingConventions() { \/\/ … } JS++ does this differently. Following the OOP principle of encapsulation, JS++ provides convenient default rules for access modifiers. … Continue reading “Tips & Tricks: Only Fields are ‘private’ by Default”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onux.com\/jspp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onux.com\/jspp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onux.com\/jspp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onux.com\/jspp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onux.com\/jspp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onux.com\/jspp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/www.onux.com\/jspp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onux.com\/jspp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onux.com\/jspp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onux.com\/jspp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}