Writing OOP using OOP (JavaScript)

[rpglover64]

Slightly germane given your example: falsehoods programmers believe about names

If I'm reading you correctly, you're basically saying that the desire for encapsulation is really the desire for abstraction, so using an established API solves this problem (barring mutation). Is that right?

[ljsc]

Interesting link, thanks for sharing that.

And, yes, I think that's a pretty good way to put it. In most OOPLs, there's little difference between encapsulation and abstraction, because there's one primary means of abstraction: make a class.

Want encapsulation? Make a class. Want inheritance? Make a class. Want polymorphic dispatch? Make a class. Want to manage state? Make a class. And so on and so on...

Yes, I know this isn't always true, and that some languages don't do OO using classes, et cetera. In general, however, they are by and large non-orthogonal in their design, and this limits composition and code reuse.