Re: [regrep] [Urgent Issue] Should reference attributes in rim classes be elements of type ObjectRef

["carl mattocks" <carlmattocks@gmail.com>]

Agreed - the proposed has a much cleaner O to O approach... 

•  offers more flexibility for having desirable Object properties.
•  offers greater clarity, less cross-reference, in query formulation

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Farrukh Najmi <farrukh@wellfleetsoftware.com> wrote:

carl mattocks wrote:

Farrukh:

 I understand the difference in declaration but do not fully understand all the implications .. thus not sure of the value in making the change.

 For example, is the 'side note' the most significant outcome ?

/A side note on proposed change is that we would likely move the home attribute from IdentifiableType to ObjectRefType and also create a sub-class of ObjectRefType called DYnamicObjectRefType which adds a QueryInvocation as selector to select reference target for dynamic references./

No the side note is not the most significant. Its just some related information to provide some additional context.

The most significant part is whether the cleaner (more OO) approach of the proposed change warrants the potential loss of efficiency (or increased implementation complexity to avoid loss of efficiency).

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