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----------------------------------------------------------- From: mail2dolly Message 3 in Discussion Hi, The three terms Abstraction,Encapsulation and Information Hiding are often misunderstood . They are closely related but mean different things at the core (hence 3 different terms) :) Information Hiding is concealing some information, for example use of access modifiers in C++, public,private,protected etc hide some data. Abstraction is a way of dealing with the information you want and ignoring the rest (as good as non-existant for you) from 1 or more items. Abstraction could be of many types like process abstraction , data abstraction , function abstraction etc. Encapsulation is encapsulating or grouping 1 or more things (data) together into a single entity. Don�t mistake this with information hiding, all the data encapsulated need not be hidden (you could have public and private types in the same container thus hiding only a part of the data). You may work with only some of the items important to you - This would be abstraction. So encapsulation enforces abstraction in a way. Hope that clears some doubts. If you still are confused , mail back. Regards, Dolly PS. Sampath I couldn't see the 2nd link you posted, I get a page not found error ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this e-mail, or change how often it arrives, go to your E-mail Settings. http://groups.msn.com/bdotnet/_emailsettings.msnw Need help? If you've forgotten your password, please go to Passport Member Services. http://groups.msn.com/_passportredir.msnw?ppmprop=help For other questions or feedback, go to our Contact Us page. http://groups.msn.com/contact If you do not want to receive future e-mail from this MSN group, or if you received this message by mistake, please click the "Remove" link below. On the pre-addressed e-mail message that opens, simply click "Send". Your e-mail address will be deleted from this group's mailing list. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
