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That's... self-contradictory. Your edit is in complete agreement with me.

Baseline working relationship has trust and respect: "should be private"

Otherwise: "This is supposed to be encapsulated. Please make this variable private."

Stilted, formal, directive language is not a hallmark of a healthy working relationship, and the number of replies to my comment here that seem to take the opposite position... is not encouraging.



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