Re: OOP - a question about database access

"Joe \"Nuke Me Xemu\" Foster" <joe_at_bftsi0.UUCP> might (or might not) have written this on (or about) Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:09:33 -0800, :

>"Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin)" <u.n.c.l.e.b.o.b_at_objectmentor.com> wrote in message
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>> "Paul Vernon" <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm> might (or might not) have
>> written this on (or about) Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:22:19 -0000, :
>>
>> >"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message
>> >news:xPSdnQQCLvchdjOiRVn-gg_at_golden.net...
>> >> "Alain Javier Guarnieri del Gesu" <nntp_at_ajgdg.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:slrnbqtmlr.euq.nntp_at_ajgdg.com.invalid...
>> >> > Perhaps in the world databases and buisness applications, OO is
>> >> > nothing special. I was simply curious if you felt that notions like
>> >> > encapsulation, polymorhism, aggregation, and inhertience have had
>> >> > their day.
>> >>
>> >> Encapsulation: Physical and logical independence have great importantance
>> >> and I foresee no change to reduce their importance.
>> >
>> >Agreed, but do the OO guys understand it as no more that just that?
>>
>> No, there are those of us who think that polymorphism is even more
>> important than encapsulation.
>
>Which kind of polymorphism? Static or dynamic, interfaces or
>code inheritance, Third Manifesto or non-circular circle, etc.?

Dynamic polymorphism.

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