getter & setter for private objects

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

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memolus at googlemail.com wrote:
> 2009/11/2 Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com>:
>
>> Defining accessors on an activation object is nasty,
>> If you want private getters and setters, you can put them in an object denoted by a private var:
>
> So you prefer ugly solutions, because the others are nasty?

Yes. Here "ugly" just means "verbose and inelegant", whereas "nasty"
means "having poorly understood and subtly error-prone consequences".
So ugly beats nasty every time :-)

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