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Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

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On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> I was indeed talking about the ways people think about programming.  For
> example, OOP in C++ is very much about encapsulation.  People declare
> all data private, and writing setter/getter functions which carefully
> control what access outside entities have to your data.

The funny thing about that notion is that, even in C++, it's
completely optional. I've subclassed someone else's class using a
struct and just left everything public. In fact, I've gotten so used
to the Python way of doing things that now I'm quite happy to run
everything public anyway.

Is OOP truly about X if X is optional?

ChrisA

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Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages Robert Harper <rwh@cs.cmu.edu> - 2013-04-18 17:14 -0400
  Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-19 12:00 +0000
    Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-19 09:07 -0400
      Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-19 23:33 +1000
        Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-19 11:31 -0400
          Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-20 01:40 +1000
            Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-19 12:02 -0400
              Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-19 16:16 +0000
                Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-04-19 12:41 -0400
                Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2013-04-20 00:50 -0700
                Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-19 16:38 +0000
              Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-04-19 19:03 -0400
                Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-19 19:40 -0400
      Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-19 16:37 +0000
        Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-19 19:37 -0400
          Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-19 23:47 +0000

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