# How do you indicate that a field should be private?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [July 27, 2021, 2:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-you-indicate-that-a-field-should-be-private/65339 "2021-07-27T02:40:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![jzr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jzr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jzr)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 2:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-you-indicate-that-a-field-should-be-private/65339/2 "2021-07-27T02:41:21Z")

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Some people consider all fields private by default. See [Documenting elements of a struct](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/documenting-elements-of-a-struct/64769)

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