Chapter 5. Object-Oriented Programming
Object-oriented programming is the third major programming paradigm. There has been a tendency to try and show that the function paradigm and the object-oriented paradigm as competing, but I believe them to be complementary techniques that work well together, which I will try to demonstrate in this chapter. At its heart, object-oriented programming has a few simple ideas, sometimes referred to as the tenets of object-oriented programming: encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritance.
Possibly the most important tenet is encapsulation, the idea that the implementations and state should be encapsulated, or hidden behind well-defined boundaries. This makes the structure of a program easier to manage. In F#, you ...
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