Private vs. Public members in practice (how important is encapsulation?) [closed]

Answer 1

@VonC

You might find the International Organisation for Standardization's, "Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing," an interesting read. It defines: "Encapsulation: the property that the information contained in an object is accessible only through interactions at the interfaces supported by the object."

I tried to make a case for information hiding's being a critical part of this definition here: http://www.edmundkirwan.com/encap/s2.html

Regards,

Ed.