# \#encapsulation

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## [Why doesn’t Julia offer built-in privacy/encapsulation features?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-doesn-t-julia-offer-built-in-privacy-encapsulation-features/124666)

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**Author:** [@younes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/younes)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-doesn-t-julia-offer-built-in-privacy-encapsulation-features/124666 "2025-01-13T15:15:00Z")

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I would like to understand Julia’s rationale for not including a language-level privacy feature: a way to truly protect the internal state from outside access. I’m aware that we can use closures to emulate encapsulation…