@property get/set or public varaible?

[vladdeSV via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Hello!

I have a question not directly related to D as it is with coding 
standards.

My issue at hand is if I have one variable for a class, which I 
want to be directly accessible for anything else, should it be
  1. public, or
  2. private, with @property get/setters?

 From what I have been told is that variables should be private. 
But if I do not want to make any checks whatsoever when setting a 
variable, I see no benefit to the private approach.

Are there any other reasons to use get/setters?