title: public fields in abstract class?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1296223/what-should-the-accessablity-of-fields-in-a-abstract-class-be">What should the accessablity of Fields in a Abstract Class be?</a>  </p>
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  <p>Is it bad practice to use public fields in abstract classes? The reason I'm asking this is because when I inherit from an abstract class I cannot access a private field from the subclass, the only way(s) around this as far as I can tell is to either make the field public, or create get/set methods to access the field... Which practice is best?</p>