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The two are not separable. If people can monkey around with the data structures that your algorithm relies on, then the algorithm is not encapsulated.

Languages like Haskell rely on it as heavily as any other well-crafted system. Imagine Data.HashTable it were originally implemented using linear probing, and someone wanted to modify (upgrade?) it to use cuckoo hashing or hopscotch hashing instead. It wouldn't be possible to do without breaking existing software if users were permitted to directly access the underlying data structures.



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