Quote: an object's methods interact indirectly through its state variables

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Internally, an object's methods interact indirectly with each … depends on assumptions about the meanings attributed to … invariant captures exactly these assumptions [ref]. [For example, the variable 'length' is a valid index into 'elements'.]   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: a class' representation invariant captures its assumptions about what state variables mean and how they can change

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