Posted by Tony Marston on 06/26/06 08:13

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Tony Marston wrote:
>> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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>>
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>>
>> OO is about encapsulation, polymorphism and inheritance. Message passing
>> is incidental.
>>
>>
>>> And YOU are the one "bastardizing" OO. Your sloppy approach to
>>> programming is just what *real* OO is designed to eliminate. And it
>>> makes the coding much more maintainable, expandable and modifiable.
>>
>>
>> Not the way some people use OO. They deliberately make it more
>> complicated than it need be, while I keep it as simple as possible.
>>
>
> And that is where you are 100% wrong. Message passing is an integral part
> of both object-based and object-oriented languages.
>
> One bit of wisdom, Tony. Tis better to remain silent and have everyone
> thing you might be a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
>
> In the OO world you have removed all doubt.

The three principles of OO are encapsulation, polymorphism and inheritance.
Message passing does not appear in that list, so it is a minor detail.

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Tony Marston

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