I think that's the point -- encapsulation is achievable in many non-OO ways, and encapsulation is basically just a subset of namespace management. In other wor

I think that's the point -- encapsulation is achievable in many non-OO ways, and encapsulation is basically just a subset of namespace management. In other words, encapsulation itself isn't necessarily bad, so griping about encapsulation doesn't seem like a very productive way to "prove" that OOP is "bad".