Re: Mixing OO and DB

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:35:04 -0400
Message-ID: <47b36290$0$4042$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>

Stefan Ram wrote:

> ram_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
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>>shirt.makeSelfClean()

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> Or,
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> shirt.wash()
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> . This is a noun (»shirt«) and a verb (»wash«).

It is also a verb (shirt) and a noun (wash). A human has experience to suggest that washes do not don shirts on themselves or on others. To the formal system, neither is a noun or a verb. Each is a symbol.

Assuming you use more-or-less conventional OO notation, the symbols form a pattern of symbol1.symbol2(...) which is syntactically correct provided symbol1 denotes a known variable and symbol2 denotes an operation defined to accept an argument variable of that type in place of its first (implicit) reference parameter.

[remaining nonsense snipped] Received on Wed Feb 13 2008 - 22:35:04 CET