Top "Encapsulation" questions

In OOP, mechanism for restricting access to some of the object's components or a design principle encouraging decoupling from implementation details.

Properties vs. Fields: Need help grasping the uses of Properties over Fields

First off, I have read through a list of postings on this topic and I don't feel I have grasped …

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Must Dependency Injection come at the expense of Encapsulation?

If I understand correctly, the typical mechanism for Dependency Injection is to inject either through a class' constructor or through …

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Non-member vs member functions in Python

I'm relatively new to Python and struggling to reconcile features of the language with habits I've picked up from my …

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A precise explanation of encapsulation, data abstraction and data hiding

The object oriented concepts : encapsulation, data abstraction and data hiding are 3 different concepts, but very much related to each other. …

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Pattern for Creating a Simple and Efficient Value type

Motivation: In reading Mark Seemann’s blog on Code Smell: Automatic Property he says near the end: The bottom line …

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Public and Privileged methods in javascript: Why are they called that way?

If I understand correctly, according to Douglas Crockford http://javascript.crockford.com/private.html, the "privileged" methods are similar to …

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Declaring private member variables

I've started learning Objective-C a few weeks ago and I still don't understand how to manage the encapsulation of a …

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Do we need to wrap ES6 code in an IIFE?

In ES5, writing such code has been considered as good practice: (function () { //some magic })(); But in ES6 variables created with …

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C# accessing protected member in derived class

I wrote the following code: public class A { protected string Howdy = "Howdy!"; } public class B : A { public void CallHowdy() { A …

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MVC 3, reuse of partial views and jquery, without conflicting the DOM

As i am still new to MVC 3 and jquery, i would like to know a best practice solution to how …

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