Re: List Container Straw Man

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Well, consider this:

If we could take Ted's List package spec and - somehow beneath it -
implement its body with the Booch Components, then you get the Booch
Components if you want them or you get a plain-vanilla simple List if that's
all you want.

The same concept might be done with Nick's ideas - but I'm leaving these
tasks as exercises for the student. :-)

Not being familiar enough with the BC's, allow me to ask: Is there some way
of getting from Ted's List package spec to a body implemented as some kind
of BC instantiation plus glue logic? A sort of "Thick Binding" to the BC's?
Would it hurt too much to even attempt to get there?

Could the same be done with any of the other potential players?

I find this an intriguing possibility since it would allow for a fairly
sophisticated component library underneath, utilize existing code for
maximum leverage, *and* give the
newbie/student/casual-user/simple-case-implementor something not too painful
to use.

MDC
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"Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote in message
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> I agree with Marin's goal, but I am also unsure of the best way to achieve
> them.
>