On 5/10/06, Barney Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
0.5.0 Alpha - the latest build. Didn't want to go from source for a first pass, but would be happy to if needed, and I can figure out how to do a CVS external in an SVN working directory.
You need to test against the CVS version - it's *very* different to 0.5.0.
> c) why you have CFCs that don't have init() methods need anything else, so they inherit the init() method from the base
I don't think that is very good practice. I think you *should* have an explicit init() in each of the derived classes (that just calls super.init() and passes the arguments up the chain). You talked about coupling yet, your derived classes are already tightly coupled to the base class - inheritance is the tightest possible coupling there is in OO design! Whatever initializes your classes is tightly coupled to the constructor API - it doesn't matter whether it is inherited or not, the coupling is to the constructor API of the class. By having an explicit init() in derived classes, you can actually protect users of your classes from changes to the base class because you control the construction API. -- Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/ Got frameworks? "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood
