Posted by Tony Marston on 06/25/06 08:25
"David Haynes" <david.haynes2@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Tony Marston wrote:
>> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
>>> Actually, things like private declarations are very important. They are
>>> unimportant only to those who don't understand OO programming - or those
>>> who are sloppy in their implementations.
>>
>> You don't *need* private declarations. Code will work just as well
>> without them.
>>
>
> What the heck! Let's just throw away multiply and divide. We don't *need*
> them. We can just use add and subtract.
>
> Heck! Why do we need subtract? We can just add negative values.
>
> Hey! Assembler works well without private declarations. Let's just pitch
> PHP all together.
>
> The point is that constructs are added to language to assist in the
> functionality and maintainability of programs written in that language.
> The introduction of private and protected adds to the maintainability both
> through its inherent protection capabilities and its clarity of intent for
> the maintainer.
>
> Now if PHP could just get polymorphism...
OOP with PHP already has polymorphism. You obviously don't know what
polymorphism means.
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Tony Marston
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