Friday, December 21, 2007

Encapsulation is not Information Hiding

As food for thought and in reply to Why Encapsulation is a Good Thing it's interesting to take a closer look. What does encapsulation mean exactly, and what can you do with it? Maybe what you really want is Information Hiding? ...and encapsulation is just a way of possibly achieving it? If you are interested in the details/differences, read the article Encapsulation is not Information Hiding.

To all TechBase Contributors

I've just added a new page which lists the KDE TechBase contributors. The idea is to have contact data for quick questions as well as build teams for different maintenance tasks. If you are active in the techbase wiki, please add yourself to the list - be it as a reviewer reading the RSS feed, translator or article writer...