Re: Rep clause problems, was Re: S'Write and How To Count Bytes

[Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>]

Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org> writes:

> Simon Wright wrote:

> > I'm assuming that your tagged types are in your application domain,
> > not the comms domain? if the former, I've found that messages rarely
> > map at all to application classes; if the latter, the message set
> > rarely maps straightforwardly to any sort of inheritance tree.
> 
> Not sure what you mean here. Let me see if I get close. All my messages
> have a predefined message header that contains things like a sync pattern,
> number of bytes, message identifier, yada, yada, yada. Then all the
> "application specific" data content follows this message header. The tree
> is very flat - although I suppose one day there may be some levels to it.

Oh, yes, I see what you mean now. I was thinking of the relationships
between different messages, but you're (for now) more interested in
the face that they all derive from Message. That makes a lot more
sense than the vague picture I'd come up with!