Explicitly declaring method visibility provides clarity and improves code readability. This leads to:
- Simplifying access to and use of the methods for other developers, enhancing the maintainability of the codebase.
- Promoting the principle of encapsulation, allowing you to control the accessibility of methods and prevent unintended access or modifications
from external code.
By explicitly stating the visibility, you establish a clear contract for how the methods should be interacted with, making it easier to understand
and reason about the behavior of the code.
Available access modifiers are:
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private - access allowed only within the same class
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protected - access allowed to the class and its child classes
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public - unfettered access by all (default)
