Re: Singleton FSs, again

2007-05-30 Thread Thilo Goetz
Adam Lally wrote: That approach is too brittle for my taste. An annotator writer would declare a type that is meant to be a singleton, but there's no way to enforce this. One careless annotator that creates a second instance of such a type, and the whole analysis chain stops working. With

Re: Singleton FSs, again

2007-05-29 Thread Adam Lally
On 5/25/07, Thilo Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to revive the discussion that started with http://www.mail-archive.com/uima-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg01299.html I still have the same concern about this that I posted to the previous thread: I think Michael is onto the same

Re: Singleton FSs, again

2007-05-29 Thread Thilo Goetz
Adam Lally wrote: On 5/25/07, Thilo Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to revive the discussion that started with http://www.mail-archive.com/uima-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg01299.html I still have the same concern about this that I posted to the previous thread: I think

Re: Singleton FSs, again

2007-05-29 Thread Adam Lally
That approach is too brittle for my taste. An annotator writer would declare a type that is meant to be a singleton, but there's no way to enforce this. One careless annotator that creates a second instance of such a type, and the whole analysis chain stops working. With my approach, at least

Re: Singleton FSs, again

2007-05-28 Thread Thilo Goetz
Eddie Epstein wrote: On 5/25/07, Thilo Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Technically, the proposal consists of a new built-in type and new built-in index as follows. - a type uima.cas.FsVariable that inherits from uima.cas.TOP with features name:String, type:String and value:TOP. The