Please note that I'm just repeating what I read. Personally I'm not sure what I think of Sean's statements and I'm more than happy to willing to admit it. ;)
=========================================================================== Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc (www.mindseye.com) Member of Team Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia) Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Liotta > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 9:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [CFCDev] Using components > > > People use the Manager IS-A Employee concept, when in > reality, it is > > instead a role. Ie, Bob is an Employee who has a Manager > role. He is > > not a TYPE OF Employee, he is simply an Employee with a > Manager role. > > Jane is an Employee with no role, or maybe just Grunt role. > > > If you (or Sean from that matter) are suggesting that > representing a relationship (users and roles) using a type > hierarchy then I agree. > However, suggesting that creating a type hierarchy to > represent user related objects is a bad practice is > incorrect. There are plenty of valid examples of doing this. > ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
