On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 16:59:14 UTC, Avik Sengupta wrote:
>
> I don't understand your domain of course, but the way I'd do this would be
> a slight variant of OPTION 1
>
> get_forces(a::AbstractAtom) = error("All AbstractAtom subtypes should
> implement get_forces")
> get_forces(a::Atom) = get_forces(a.calc)
>
>
this is indeed what I've done at the moment. Good to hear that this is not
completely idiotic.
> I think the point to ponder is, what amount of commonality does all
> possible Atoms contain?
>
I thought one problem with not having "proper" inheritance is that this
doesn't really help? Even small variations across AbstractAtoms types
require a full implementation?
