Then I clearly misunderstood you when you said that "encapsulation is king ... is wrong" and I apologize for that. It sounded to me like you were disagreeing with the idea of encapsulation rather than placing it in context. However, I would humbly suggest that such a subtle point is easily lost when you start out by being confrontational. (Though I'm as just as guilty of the negative comments as I can get riled up when I'm poked)

And you still haven't pointed out how my response to the OP was at odds with the first article. I made an example out a common OO mistake of how not encapsulating something (and thus failing to abstract it) could lead to serious bugs. This is a well-known failure mode by having poorly distributed responsibilities. In regards to the first link you had posted: I was writing about poorly distributed responsibilities -- a common problem I would like to solve -- and the author was writing about achieving minimal classes -- a common problem he would like to solve. These ideas are not contradictory.

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

In reply to Re^8: Why encapsulation matters by Ovid
in thread Make everything an object? by wfsp

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