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		stock_toaster on July 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Joe Armstrong: Why OO Sucks That is an implementation detail due to python's object support. Dicts are a native type, that are hashmaps. Unless you mean "object" as in "a thing"....

Maro on July 15, 2012 [–]

I think he means dicts combine data, state and functionality, expose a clean API and hide the details.

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