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Subject: "Assignment Style" vs. "Functional Style"

From: Adam Lally <alally@us.ibm.com>
To: carl.madson@sri.com, j.tsujii@manchester.ac.uk, Sophia.ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk, "uima@lists.oasis-open.org" <uima@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:57:58 -0400

Hi everyone,

I tried to capture the issues we discussed on the last telecon regarding whether UIMA's component/service interfaces should use an assignment style (take a CAS and update it) or a functional style (take a CAS and return a new CAS). See the attached document.

Thilo and/or Thomas probably have more that they would like to add to this discussion. Anyone else is of course free to jump in as well.

Regards,
-Adam
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Adam Lally
Advisory Software Engineer
UIMA Framework Lead Developer
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, NY, 10532
Tel: 914-784-7706, T/L: 863-7706
alally@us.ibm.com

AssignmentVsFunctionalStyle.doc