Object Wrappers
Several times in the previous chapters I have indicated that one of my primary goals in this book is to dispel the fallacy that object-oriented programming is a separate paradigm from structured programming, and is even at odds with it. In fact, as I have already mentioned, I am often asked the following question: “Are you an object-oriented programmer or a structured programmer?” The answer is always the same—I am both!
In my mind, there is no way to write a program without using structured code. Thus, when you write a program that uses an object-oriented programming language and are using sound object-oriented design techniques, you are also using structured programming techniques. There is no way around this.
For example, when ...
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