Hello, Thanks for the responses. The reason I want to change the name of the attribute is because it doesn't reflect the purpose of the attribute, anymore. The attribute was originally a string object, but not anymore. It is primarily a readability issue. There are also a few key attributes I don't want developers, including myself, fiddling with. Properties /accessors are good because they allow you to encapsulate attributes so you can change implementations at will. Some of you have argued I would have needed to change accessor names too if I had misnamed them earlier. It's hard to say. I find myself changing the names of attributes a lot more frequently than I do functions or methods. Choosing a crappy attribute name is effortless for me, especially during intense coding sessions. I usually realize I've choosing a crappy attribute name the next day, sometimes even later. However, I put a lot more effort into choosing method and function names, especially when I know it may likely be a public API. Plus it's really hard to choose crappy accessor name.
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