Why Strings as Classes?

[Derek Parnell]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:08:47 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> The way I see it, encapsulation is all about the black box idea. And the 
> only things you can see from outside the black box are the inputs and 
> outputs. 

Well said. 

> Indexing: Return the element at position N.
> Find: Return the position of the element that is equal (value-equal or 
> identity-equal, depending on the find) to X .

Exactly.

> So if there's a function that returns the element at position N and you call 
> it "find" just because of the *internal implementation* of the function is 
> an incrementing loop, I consider that to be both a violation of 
> encapsulation (because the name has been chosen based on the inner workings 
> of the function, not it's input-output relationship) and a violation of the 
> definitions.

Not to mention just plain confusing.

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Derek Parnell
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