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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:33:01 +1000
Subject: 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