Re: The wisdom of the object mentors
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:38:46 +0200
Message-ID: <nfbbzwnce7g5.hk3zq3dns1ww.dlg_at_40tude.net>
On 26 Jun 2006 19:06:43 -0700, Marshall wrote:
>> frebe73_at_gmail.com writes:
>>>
>>> A algorithm could must obviously know about the data structure.
>>
>> Not at all! I'm currently writing many algorithms that get their data
>> passed in as java objects. The algorithm does not need to know where
>> the data came from and how it is stored in the database.
>
> "Where the data came from" is not the data structure.
Replace "where the data came from" with "the data structure at the place they came from."
> These methods you are writing, are they declared to receive
> arguments of type java.lang.Object? No? Then the objects
> support some interface, and that interface is the logical
> data structure.
Once you admit that they need not to be same, you do the first step to an abstraction of.
> An algorithm must obviously know about the data structure.
[ my behaviorist's hat on ]
Algorithm is a part of implementation of 'the' data structure.
[ hat off, bow out ]
-- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.deReceived on Tue Jun 27 2006 - 09:38:46 CEST