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Separation of data and functions - PHP Tutorial
From the course: Functional Programming with PHP
Separation of data and functions
- [Instructor] The second main concept of functional programming is the separation of data and functions. This is a case where functional programming is directly in contrast with object-oriented programming, where data and functions are almost always grouped together. So, let's see what the separation of data and functions looks like. First of all, for our purposes, data might be any values that a program contains. People's names, addresses and social security numbers in a payroll program, the models, years and colors of cars on a used car website, the positions, health levels and weapons of characters in a video game, anything. All of this is data. In object-oriented programming, this data is usually wrapped up in side objects as member variables and the only way we can access it is by using an object's methods. In functional programming on the other hand, this data is usually represented by simple arrays as we see…
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