What's the difference between "void" and "encapsulation"?

Question

It's probably in its purpose but I'm still not sure what the difference is.

Answer 1

They totally have 0 similarities (except that it can be used in a function). But anyway....

void can be said as a datatype that is empty. So its a datatype that literally stores... nothing.
So now in functions you realise that you always have to output/return something.
But what if its there just to do a "system.out.println"??? Then you have a problem yes? That is where void comes in, it basically allows you to return nothing.

Try creating a void function, at the end just write "return;" and you will kinda get what I meant.

Encapsulation is the act of hiding data from other code/classes/functions. It is quite important for good coding practice and when coding API/packages. (And hackers)

Why is this important? Lets say that you created a list/array of alphabets for the user to access.
Now you only want them to get, but not set/modify the array/list yes? That is where encapsulation comes into handy.

Answer 2

Those examples really do the trick! 😃
They're the main reason I understood what you just explained. 😂
Thanks Wen.