What are the benefits of using properties internally?

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Published on 2010-05-21T18:50:25Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 19:00 UTC
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Encapsulation is obviously helpful and essential when accessing members from outside the class, but when referring to class variables internally, is it better to call their private members, or use their getters? If your getter simply returns the variable, is there any performance difference?

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