What is a type error?

[Joachim Durchholz]

Chris Smith schrieb:
> I think 
> there's something fundamentally important about information hiding that 
> can't be given up.

Indeed.
Without information hiding, with N entities, you have O(N^2) possible 
interactions between them. This quickly outgrows the human capacity for 
managing the interactions.
With information hiding, you can set up a layered approach, and the 
interactions are usually down to something between O(log N) and O(N log 
N). Now that's far more manageable.

Regards,
Jo