2 Apr
2004
2 Apr
'04
8:04 a.m.
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Christian Maeder wrote:
Modules better support encapsulation (information hiding), classes allow for overloading of names.
The old prejudice again... Modules only hide names. Real information hiding requires specifications (or contracts, or refinement, or whatever you call them). You can do that with modules or with classes. I think classes are better, the proposed Abstract Collections do it with classes, this works fine. Nobody yet did it with modules... Robert