Re: Information hiding?
"Roy T. Fielding" <[email protected]>
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On Feb 27, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Eric J. Bowman wrote: > Alan Dean wrote: >> >> I can see *"The resource implementation details are hidden behind the >> interface."* in [1] but that doesn't seem to be in conflict with >> *"allows information hiding through a generic interface"* to me. >> > > So "information hiding" is shorthand for "implementation-detail hiding"? > I guess I was thinking "uses SQL" is an implementation detail, while > the results of a SQL query would be "information," and I was missing > some subtlety. Information hiding is one of the first software engineering principles learned when systems became large enough to require modularity. http://www.itmweb.com/essay550.htm ....Roy