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stock_toaster on July 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Joe Armstrong: Why OO Sucks

Isn't that a bit of a false dilemma though? Can you not have clean interfaces and separation of concerns without OO -- even with something as 'simple' as python namespaces and dicts?

el_presidente on July 15, 2012 [–]

Dicts are objects.

stock_toaster on July 15, 2012 | [–]

That is an implementation detail due to python's object support. Dicts are a native type, that are hashmaps.

Unless you mean "object" as in "a thing"....

Maro on July 15, 2012 | | [–]

I think he means dicts combine data, state and functionality, expose a clean API and hide the details.

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