I would say that making assumptions about your parent is a bad idea for the outermost class of a component, but sub-components being composited to form the component can certainly make assumptions about the parent as that is within the encapsulation.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chrycheng Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Referring to parent in components Is it alright for a component to make references to its parent via the parent property? Wouldn't this go against the principles of encapsulation/abstraction?
