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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 05:32:09 -0600
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On 2013-11-11 20:46, Rick Johnson wrote:
> Yes, and i agree. But you cannot "hide" everything. There
> will always be a need to share information.

You may not be able to (or want to) hide everything, but sharing
should at least happen over defined protocols (functions/methods).
Otherwise, you wander off into the weeds of hackery and
monkey-patching which makes maintaining the code a lot hairier.

-tkc