On Tuesday 20 January 2009 02:00:43 am Russ P. wrote: > On Jan 19, 10:33 pm, Luis Zarrabeitia <ky...@uh.cu> wrote: > > (Why do you keep calling it 'encapsulation'?). > > I keep calling it encapsulation because that is a widely accepted, > albeit not universal, definition of encapsulation.
[...] > Encapsulation conceals the functional details of a class from objects > that send messages to it. [..] > Definition: In Object Oriented Programming, encapsulation is an > attribute of object design. It means that all of the object's data is > contained and hidden in the object and access to it restricted to > members of that class. Ahh, 'concealed', 'contained', 'hidden'. Except the last one, "hidden", python does the rest... and one could argue the self.__privs get pretty well hidden. Not 'forbidden', 'restricted', 'enforced'. -- Luis Zarrabeitia (aka Kyrie) Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH. http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
