The Sapphire Language: getting and setting instance variables
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Actually, it doesn’t break encapsulation - it just makes instance variable accessors public by default. It’s just that the get/set methods are defined by default to be public. This is the current behaviour, but you can change this. We’ve defined a technique of altering this behaviour using interfaces (picked up from Object Oriented Encapulation or OOE) which I’ll describe next week.
I haven’t had a look at Lua (yet) - thanks for the pointer.
Dermot