In article <533558fa$0$29994$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> > Yes. The whole idea of OOD is to decouple internal representation from > > external behavior. > > The *whole* idea? You don't think that encapsulation and inheritance > might also be involved? *wink* I'm not sure how "decoupling internal representation from external behavior" is substantially different from encapsulation. And, no, I don't think inheritance is a fundamental characteristic of OOD, nudge nudge. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list