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		protomyth on June 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kay on the Meaning of "Object-Oriented Programming... It also allows the substitution of internal data structures due to profiling / runtime usage of the data.

gnaritas on June 7, 2011 [–]

Which is the point of modular code, to be able to fiddle with the internals for whatever reason you like without affecting clients.

protomyth on June 7, 2011 | [–]

agreed, I was pointing out (badly) that it could be a runtime / compiler decision and not the programmer.

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