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13,630 Pointsdoesn't the public method to get the answer defeat the purpose of a private answer variable
Is there a way for only the prompter.java file to access the private answer variable? if not, anyone can access and get the answer with the public getAnswer() method.
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Steven Parker
231,184 PointsThe primary benefit of of the private variable isn't to prevent other code from reading it (since as you observed, there's a public method for that); but it's to prevent any other code from changing that value.