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Object-oriented programming is the third major programming paradigm. At its heart, object-oriented programming has a few simple ideas, some of which you’ve already encountered. Possibly the most important idea is that the implementations and state should be encapsulated, that is, hidden behind well-defined boundaries. This makes the structure of a program easier to manage. In F#, things are hidden by using signatures for modules and type definitions and also by simply defining them locally to an expression or class construction (you’ll see examples of both in this chapter).
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© 2007 Robert Pickering
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(2007). Object-Oriented Programming. In: Foundations of F#. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0358-2_5
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