Why there is public in variables declartions?

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It isn't by default like that? For example:

**public** int [name];
**public** String [name];

By default variables are package-private. – August Aug 15 '14 at 16:01 — August, Aug 15 '14 at 16:01

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By default it's package-private access (allowing any class belonging to the same package to access it), not public.

Anyway, it's bad practice to define data members as public. In most cases they should be private.

answered Aug 15 '14 at 16:01

Eran

You mean fields, not members. Some members need to be public, otherwise there's not much happening. – biziclop Aug 15 '14 at 16:02
@biziclop I fixed my phrasing to "data members", as opposed to methods. – Eran Aug 15 '14 at 16:03

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