Re: One-To-One Relationships

From: David BL <davidbl_at_iinet.net.au>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:11:33 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <087de6e3-2eed-4cd3-a1d2-9c4c30e16dc9_at_s36g2000prg.googlegroups.com>


On Dec 1, 1:02 pm, paul c <toledobythe..._at_ooyah.ac> wrote:
> David BL wrote:
> > ... As Paul suggested, you can't store an entity on a computer.
> > Therefore technically entities are never first class citizens. ...
>
> David, what are you talking about? As well you can't store citizens on
> a computer, surely the important point is the pretense of saying you
> did. Without that pretense, computers would be useless.

There are some things we can "store" on a computer without pretense. Examples are stacks, queues, thread pools, mutexes, BTrees, garbage collectors, files, GUI elements, device drivers.

As I once said (unpopular as it was), these things are compatible with the (proper and rightful) identity semantic of OO. Received on Sat Dec 01 2007 - 06:11:33 CET

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