Re: Mixing OO and DB

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:34:11 -0400
Message-ID: <47bf9435$0$4054$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>


Yagotta B. Kidding wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox_at_dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in
> news:1uslk379r2ino$.1scu4stwa18dk$.dlg_at_40tude.net:
>

>>On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:57:03 -0800 (PST), JOG wrote:
>>
>>>Anyone got any ideas how circles 'behave' exactly?
>>
>>They do such that:
>>
>>1. the length of a circle is 2 Pi R
>>2. the diameter of is the longest chord of
>>3. the area of is Pi R**2
>>...
>>
>>Behavior = set of provable statements about circles.

>
> In the light of my recently discovered lemma, what I am about to say is
> probably pointless, but being in a charitable mood I'll try anyway.
>
> The set of provable statements about the circle is a simple consequence
> of the Eucledean postulates (or their Hilbert's reformulation). As such,
> the provable statements do not add any new information (or "behaviour")
> to what is formulated by the third Postulate.
>
> More interestinly though, your definition of behaviour is rather at odds
> with the accepted OOP use of the term as the collection of 'methods' of
> a specific class. Surely, an OOP practitioner should know better than
> that !

To make any sense of that, you would have to define class and method. Received on Sat Feb 23 2008 - 04:34:11 CET

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