Does reflection breaks the idea of private methods, because private methods can be access outside of the class?

Question

Does reflection break the idea of private methods? Because private methods can be accessed from outside of the class? (Maybe I don\'t understand the meaning of reflection or

Answer 1

Yes, reflection breaks this idea. Native languages also have some tricks to break OOP rules, for example, in C++ it is possible to change private class members using pointer tricks. However, by using these tricks, we get the code which can be incompatible with future class versions - this is the price we pay for breaking OOP rules.