<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">It also means that anybody who want to access your private var will just have to write an extension to expose it.</div></div></blockquote></div>imho this is wrong thinking:<div class="">Access control is no tool to offer real "protection" — it can't stop someone who wants to break a system.</div><div class="">Especially in the world of open source, it is merely an advice from the author not to do certain things.</div></body></html>