Re: prefix notation

[Ali Bendriss <Bendriss@drc.ion.ucl.ac.uk>]

On Monday 12 March 2007 12:27, Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
> Ali Bendriss a écrit :

[...]

Thanks for the precisions. 
I will make the distinction more clear (at list in my mind).

> I don't know exactly what you are trying to achieve, but is Read a
> property of Img? To me, it looks like a property of a Tiff object. The
> method depends on the format of the file, not on the object being read.
> Similarly, isn't Draw a method of Circle rather than Img? etc.
>

For the moment I was thinking following what was already done by other 
binding; for example :
- perl : http://www.imagemagick.org/script/perl-magick.php#example
- c++ : http://www.imagemagick.org/Magick++/Image.html

Maybe I'm wrong. 
But those two interfaces look like easy to understand and to use.

> There is no general rule, but often if you end up with too many methods,
> it may well be that they don't belong to the right object.
>
> (BTW: the whole Java library is full of these badly assigned methods!)
>
> My 5cts...

-- 
Ali