Clean Code: Should Objects have public properties?

Question

I\'m reading the book \"Clean Code\" and am struggling with a concept. When discussing Objects and Data Structures, it states the following:

• Objects hide thei

Answer 1

The book is trying describe the theory that an object should not expose how the class is actually implemented. In more complicated objects many of the internal variables don't necessarily convey the right information from an outside perspective and should just have methods that act on them.

However, making this a hard and fast rule falls apart when you have simple objects. In the case of a rectangle, height and width are basic properties that the user will want to know. And since the implementation of this is straight forward, not using get and set will just make your code more complicated than it needs to be.