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		sanderjd on Sept 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What I have changed my mind about in software deve... It's not much different that package-private (the default visibility in java).

brabel on Sept 11, 2023 [–]

We use package-private and @VisibleForTesting (I forget which library provides that now) for these cases.

sanderjd on Sept 11, 2023 | [–]

@VisibleForTesting is mostly documentation; you can just as easily use package private without an annotation. (Though yeah, I think it's good to use the annotation anyway.)

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