On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:35, Peter Donald wrote: > At 10:23 AM 6/23/2002 +1000, you wrote: > >What do you think of getting rid of the DataType interface? We'd keep the > >role, but drop the requirement that a data-type must implement the > > interface. > > Im not a fan of it - but you already knew that. In effect if we were to put > this in we would be special casing the whole system. It would be better to > do > > if( datatype ) doMagic(); > else doNormalStuff();
Um, where would it be better to do this? It's not real clear.
No idea - thats your area of expertise ;)
I had a brief look and it looks like the only place where role class is actually enforced is in InstantiatingServiceManager. Is there anywhere else that it is enforced?
Cheers,
Peter Donald
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