Cpp Coding Standards/ENC/PrivData
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Giving away your internals makes preserving class invariants impossible, and thwarts future modifications to the inner workings of your class. Remember that information hiding is one of the hallmarks of good software design.
Exception: behaviourless c-style structs, that serve as value aggregates.