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encapsulation comparison table |
Subject | allow | is a kind of | is a subtopic of | helps | has definition |
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practice | subject | ||||
encapsulation | changes to code to be more easily made since one can be confident that 'outsiders' are not relying on too many details | practice | 2.7 - Concepts that Define Object Orientation | to achieve information hiding | Creating a module to contain some algorithm or data structure, thus hiding its details behind the module's interface |
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