On Thursday, 16 February 2023 at 20:56:00 UTC, ProtectAndHide
wrote:
My agrument is this:
Objects are data abstractions with an interface of named
operations and a hidden local state. Does anyone disagree with
this?
D does not have a language mechanism, but rather a design
mechanism that supports the above.
By that I mean, you cannot use a language 'declaration' mechanism
to enforce the above, but rather have to revert to a design
mechanism - putting the class that represents that object into a
module by itself. Does anyone disagrre with this?
Forcing programmers to use a design mechanism rather than a
language mechanism to achieve the above abstraction is wrong.
This seems to be the source of the disagreement, correct?
So some think its fine to force this onto programmers? That is
essentially your argument... right?
