I didn’t intend to start an “is evil” series, but several readers asked me to explain why I mentioned that you should avoid get/set methods in last month’s column, “Why extends Is Evil.” Though getter ...

It’s a 25-year-old principle of object-oriented (OO) design that you shouldn’t expose an object’s implementation to any other classes in the program. The program is unnecessarily difficult to maintain ...

Right now our getter/setter generation is hidden in "Source Action" and it is not very visible. We have lots of feedback from developers that they ask for getter/setter generation but we already ...