Re: Mixing OO and DB
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:12:18 -0600
Message-ID: <2008022409121816807-unclebob_at_objectmentorcom>
On 2008-02-22 17:41:58 -0600, topmind <topmind_at_technologist.com> said:
>> Actually, I think you have already named some examples. Using a dummy
>> database for testing, for example. Not that you MUST use OO for these
>> things; but often you can, and often it is convenient.
>
> Well, I think that is stretching the definition of OOP a bit far,
> almost like saying word-processors are OOP/polymorphic because they
> can open any document of a given extension. That's all the test DB is
> like: we simply point the app to a different (test) DB just like a
> word-processor or Excel opening a different document.
Actually, I think there's a fundamental difference. In the word processor there is a if/else or switch statment that hands control off to the appropriate file parser. It goes one way for a .doc and another way for a .rtf. That's not an OO concept.
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