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arjie on Oct 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: JDK 9 release schedule

He means you'd call `increment(25)` to say you've got 25 more, or `employee.suspend()` instead of `employee.setAccess(SUSPENDED); employee.setPay(0); employee.setBenefits(NONE);`

carterehsmith on Oct 19, 2016 [–]

Increment(25) still mutates the value.

What is the point here?

Point - say you have a database with 300 tables and ~3,000 columns.

You do not want to play the game of "hide the method to change the value". That is a big waste of time for everyone involved.

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