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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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Subject: Re: Immutable Datastructures with good Sharing
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:02:00 -0800
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On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 22:06:46 +0000, Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
wrote:

[snip]

>The point is that obfuscation is not necessarily a bad thing! It's just 
>that when we think it's a good thing, we tend to call it 'encapsulation'.

     The two are not the same.  Making something more difficult to
understand is not the same as hiding it.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko