Roy Smith <r...@panix.com>: > I'm not sure how "decoupling internal representation from external > behavior" is substantially different from encapsulation.
Yes, that's encapsulation. The idea of encapsulation is older than OO. > And, no, I don't think inheritance is a fundamental characteristic of > OOD, nudge nudge. Inheritance was there with Simula so I think it's high up there with OO. If encapsulation exists outside OO and inheritance is not key to it, what is OO then, a marketing term? (It's a different thing, then, that encapsulation and inheritance are mutually exclusive principles.) Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
