Loose type checking in E

[Tyler Close]

At 08:42 PM 10/24/98 -0400, you wrote:
>> Maybe I should also point out that an object with "dozens" of
>> methods is an exceptionally poor idea.
>
>Nonsense.
>
>Even in the context in which you made the comment, I don't think I
>agree.  Buttons are windows, and windows are extremely complicated
>objects (semantically speaking).

Buttons are not windows. Which lame OS windowing API has gotton lodged in
your brain?

Complicated objects are not objects, they are a bunch of objects that have
been mashed together. If you have a bunch of objects that need to cooperate
to perform complex operations; then you should create a simple Facade
object that knows how to do these complex operations.

Tyler