On Wednesday, 15 February 2023 at 20:01:12 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Wednesday, 15 February 2023 at 19:44:50 UTC, ProtectAndHide
wrote:
A user-defined type is a type that has a mechanism to keep it
representation private.
D does not support this. It only enables it.
You (and others) may well argue that D should not enable this
(directly), it should only support it (indirectly), and thus
allow the language to force an important design decision onto
programmers.
As a programmer, I don't think that is acceptable.
The response was to your claim that "I think what you could say
is that D lacks _encapsulation_ which is also an OOP concept.
So D is partially OOP but not fully OOP due to there being no
encapsulation in the language."
Mike demonstrated clearly that your claim is false.
My claims are factually correct.
What Mike is arguing, is that I don't need a 'data hiding'
mechanism for a user-defined type, because that is already
provided to me by the 'data hiding' mechanism of the module.
That is his argument.
My argument is that I want 'data hiding' mechanism at the
user-defined type level as well.
Again, his argument is that i don't need it.. because...
And my argument is, that I want it...
And his arguement is, that I don't need it..
And...
And.....
And.......
