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Information Hiding

Notice that I, as a user of a service being provided by an object, need only know the name of the messages that the object will accept.

I need not have any idea how the actions performed in response to my request will be carried out.

Having accepted a message, an object is responsible for carrying it out.

Intro OOP, Chapter 1, Slide 19