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Rule 9: Don’t Use Any Getters/Setters/Properties
From the series about the rules of thumb, presented at chapter Object Calisthenics by Jeff Bay in The ThoughtWorks Anthology book from the Pragmatic Programmers (click here to see the the previous rules).
The rule
The last sentence of the previous rule leads almost directly to this rule.
If your objects are now encapsulating the appropriate set of instance variables but the design is still awkward, it is time to examine some more direct violations of encapsulation. The behavior will not follow the instance variable if it can simply ask for the value in its current location.
The idea behind strong encapsulation boundaries is to force programmers working on the code after you leave it to look for and place behavior into a single place in the object model. This has many beneficial downstream effects, such as a dramatic reduction in duplication errors and a better localization of changes to implement new features. This rule is commonly stated as “Tell, don’t ask.”
