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need-to-know principle

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need-to-know principle is a subtopic of Programming 2001-10-19 11:37:28.0
is a kind of principle
states that you should restrict access to your classes to the instance variables and methods in public interfaces so that you can revise and improve the other instance variables and methods without worrying about whether other programmers have already come to depend on them added by: JK, source: On To Java, 2001-10-19 11:37:28.0

need-to-know principle	is a subtopic of Programming
	is a kind of principle
	states that you should restrict access to your classes to the instance variables and methods in public interfaces so that you can revise and improve the other instance variables and methods without worrying about whether other programmers have already come to depend on them