I guess I'm confused about private variables in Java. To generalize this as much as possible for Processing, here's some simple code:

1. class Thing {
2.       private int member;
   
3. }
4. 
   
5. void setup() {
6.       size(1, 1, P2D);
7.       Thing thing = new Thing();
8.       thing.member = 1; // why can I do this?
   
9.       exit();
10. }
    

Here, member is private, so why am I able to access it from outside of the class directly?