[Vxl-maintainers] Inherit Parameters?

[Joseph L M. <mu...@le...>]

I offer here an argument for inheriting a parameters block rather than
having a parameter block.

 

1)    Inheritance is not always restricted to "being" a thing.  For
example we inherit a ref count or a time stamp, and these are "mixins"
as derived from the old lisp machine "flavors" concept, where additional
features are mixed together as in an ice cream sunday.

2)    Algorithms that inherit parameters can use them freely throughout
the code without the tedious indirection, e.g. param->threshold_.
Instead

 if(x>threshold_)

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Joe

 

 

 

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