Re: Types, Makers, and Inheritance Chip Morningstar (chip@communities.com)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:33:19 -0700 (PDT)

Tyler sez:
>I would like to propose a new design heuristic. Anything that causes Ping
>to make a diagram is too complex and must be simplified.

I think this is a fine heuristic, as long as our benchmark is Ping and not MarkM. MarkM will make a diagram for anything :-)

>I would like the type object and maker object to be identical (ie: no
>separate type object). I will also reiterate my desire to eliminate
>inheritance.

I agree. While the separation of type and maker has a certain conceptual elegance, this does not IMHO come near to offsetting the additional cognitive and notational overhead of having yet another abstraction to keep track of, explain, code, etc.

Chip 

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