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On Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 3:36:33 PM UTC-4, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
> > If you leave off the validation and just declare class variable public =
double unitPrice, you either validate it where it gets used or never valida=
te assuming it's ok to just throw an error where it would be used if it som=
ehow gets an invalid value.
>=20
> That has to be the worst advice I've read in quite a while.
>=20
> --=20
> DF.

I would agree that's probably not a good idea, but I'm sure I've seen it do=
ne..

Personally I think option 2 sounds better.. preferably use an IDE or plugin=
 that can create getters and setters for you and do the validating for you =
if there are multiple fields with the same validation requirement.  If not =
then just build in a framework for it, try to prevent duplicating code as m=
uch as possible.