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Class variables

Posted by Celia Jia on 24 Feb 1999, 7:38 AM

As you recommonded, to enforce data-hiding, we should declare class variables as final. But what if we want to give end-user to modify the value of these variables through a plain text file? For example, we declare some file path as static string variable in a class, and then allow user to change the path in a plain text. So everything the class is loaded, it will read from the plain text file first. If the path is not defined there, it will use the default value in the class. But the client of that class won't know anything about this overriding. Do you think it violates the data-hiding thesis?

• Class variables Paul Nita 01 Mar 1999, 1:38 PM (0)