Re: [curl-email-news] foundation class update and request for comments

[Brent Y. <br...@cu...>]

gh...@nc... wrote:

> Now if you had a few thousand lines of code and needed to change
> all your VBoxes Brent's idea would be extremely appealing.  But, if
> I'm planning ahead I still like the idea of a common superclass.

definitely.  I'd recommend going ahead full steam with your thoughts on this -
the dynamic reassignment of what "vbox" means is very cool but not very useful
in this case.

Cheer,s
Brent


>
>
> In practice (with PB) most foundation class objects are abstract
> classes and this is easily enforced in Curl if desired.  The general
> rule in PB was that all objects of type X should have a common
> ancestor that you can apply changes to.
>
> There is no good reason to insist that because something was the
> best solution in PB it is also the best soution in Curl.  If there is a
> better way to do it in Curl let's find it.  I still think the foundation
> class paradigm is a good "first approach" for setting up our class
> libraries.
>
> Best Regards,
> Gene
>
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