Encyclopedia > Data hiding

  Article Content

Data hiding

Data hiding is a general concept in computing which demands that data that is important for state-keeping only is hidden from the user. In other words, the user 'sees' only the data necessary or relevant for him; everything else is hidden.

See also: OOP, Encapsulation, Information hiding



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Islip Terrace, New York

... of which 43.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.6% are married couples living together, 11.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 21.2 ms