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Almost always, there is a way to override such protection - usually via reflection API (Ruby, Java, C#, etc.), sometimes by mechanism like name mangling ([[Python (programming language)|Python]]), or special keyword usage like <code>friend</code> in C++.
==Encapsulation is not information hiding:==
Encapsulation refers to the bundling of data with the methods that operate on that data. Often that definition is misconstrued to mean that the data is somehow hidden. In Java, you can have encapsulated data that is not hidden at all.
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== General Definition ==
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