RE: [Openinteract-help] subclassing/overriding perhaps?

[Chris M. <Chr...@te...>]

Thank you very much for the suggestions - 

I can seem to find any documentation on the object_link method - can you
point me to some explanation or example?

Thanks,

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Winters [mailto:ch...@cw...]
Sent: July 9, 2003 4:40 PM
To: Andreas Nolte
Cc: Chris McDaniel; 'ope...@li...'
Subject: Re: [Openinteract-help] subclassing/overriding perhaps?


Andreas Nolte wrote:
> I saw Chris Winters already sketched a solution for a subclassing
> solution implementing an ISA relationship. 
> Maybe you should consider also using a HAS A relationship. You would
> define a new SPOPS class with ISA Telus::User, maybe has some extra
> stored attributes but then HAS A base_user. There are multiple ways in
> SPOPS to do this with the has_a, links_to and object_link things. I like
> object_link the most because I think it` s the most flexible.
> 
> Using this approach, you do not need to worry much about the base
> packages and upgrading is a snap.

This is an excellent suggestion for SPOPS objects. As the GoF says: 
"Favor object composition over class inheritance." :-)

Chris

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