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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_at_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 - 13:02:16 CEST












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