Re: The wisdom of the object mentors

From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 27 Jun 2006 07:43:22 -0700
Message-ID: <1151419402.489050.170660_at_m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>


Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 26 Jun 2006 19:06:43 -0700, Marshall wrote:
>
> > Bart Wakker 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."

The claim was that it is not the case that an algorithm must know about the data structure it operates on. This claim is bogus on the face of it. Your introduction of the idea of different schemas for different modules does not change how bogus it is.  

Marshall Received on Tue Jun 27 2006 - 16:43:22 CEST

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