Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:02:16 +0200
Message-ID: <4142db3b$0$48933$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

Marshall Spight wrote:

>>mAsterdam wrote:
>>>Encapsulation is never absolute to everyone.
>>>If you need to get under the hood, you'll
>>>have to be able to break the black-box seal.

[...]
> Although I haven't worked this way, I have friends who swear
> by the power of breaking encapsulation. Again, I see this as
> simply a symptom of the fact that we don't do it right yet.

If it is ignorance causing this, yes.

But let's assume your friend *does* understand the benefits of encapsulation when they are there: if breaking the capsule works for your friend - why not?

Using modified code snippets, templates, patterns all breaks some encapsulation. Received on Sat Sep 11 2004 - 06:02:16 CDT