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Hey Janne, thaks for your fruitful comment. You are right, I also tend to use protected instead of private in my code, so that I can be able to extend the class and create sub-classes.
However, the point of the code snippets in this article is to provide a view of a layered MVC architecture and modularized classes.
In a more realistic scenario one would have preferred to use protected, for all the reasons you referenced.
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Hey Janne, thaks for your fruitful comment. You are right, I also tend to use
protectedinstead ofprivatein my code, so that I can be able to extend the class and create sub-classes.However, the point of the code snippets in this article is to provide a view of a layered MVC architecture and modularized classes.
In a more realistic scenario one would have preferred to use
protected, for all the reasons you referenced.