[liblamp-developers] simple and complex objects

[Stefan N. <noa...@go...>]

Hi folks,

I just wrote down some ideas that i had about the next thing we may
implement. You can also find these notes in the doc/planning directory.
I really like to hear your suggestions :) What do you want to do
differntly or is this okay?

Here is the excerpt:

1.2.: Simple and complex objects

An important idea that should be included is that you can make something
complex from simple elements. However, when simulating the behaviour of
such a combined object only the properties of each element are
important. Altogether they describe the behaviour of the whole system.
The Physical class should of course cover both of these kinds of
objects. Due to their special properties respected and manipulated by
simulators the elementary objects have to be handled in a special way.
This will be done by deriving a class named Simplex from the Physical
class. Evey Physical must provide a list of its elements, which can be
easily be implemented by both the simple objects just returning
themselves and the complex objects concatenating the lists of each
part. The previously mentioned non-static properties are something for
simplexes as they are what simulators can handle. They should provide
definitions for these values but should not store the numbers because
this belongs to the tasks of simulators and frames.

Ideas on how to implement this are also highly appreciated :)

btw: Some tests and xml documentation for the Quantity class and xml
documentation for most other things must be written. Maybe i will do
this tomorrow. Maybe ;-)

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Stefan Noack <noa...@go...>