Is there any reason (laziness aside) to declare instance variables public?

Why would you declare one public, save for the fact that object.field is quicker to type than object.getField()? It is a pain to have to write get/set methods for private variables, but later on, if you ever need to do something with a variable when it's been accessed or modified, it's much easier to go back and edit just those methods, instead of everywhere the variable's been directly accessed. On the other hand, I see no benefit of declaring a variable public. Is there one?

Never, Never, Never !!!That's a tad extreme.
In most cases, you'll want get and set, and even then you need to examine whether you really want another class to have that direct control over your object's state.
But there are cases where you can make your instance variables public. If it's a pure data container, with no behavior, and you don't expect it to ever be used in a multithreaded context or to be used as a JavaBean, then you can make the instance variables public.

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