Think of a restaurant. The server knows how to talk to customers, explain menu options and take payment.
The cook knows how to get ingredients, fiddle with knobs on the stove and put cooked food on a plate. There is going to be a server-cook interaction, but each largely retains specialized knowledge about their specific areas of control (knowledge) DW On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Doug Boude <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, they're coupled in a sense, but in a controlled, OO acceptable > manner...some call it aggregation, some composition, but in either case, > you're injecting an instance of one object into another, and that's okay! :) > > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Allen G <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Maybe I'm misunderstanding things but even if things are encapsulated, >> wouldn't one be coupling those two objects together by doing that? >> >> --Allen >> >> >> >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Dan Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Sure. That makes sense. >>> >>> I do it all the time. If you've encapsulated the Item stuff and the Price >>> stuff well enough, then you'd totally want to do that. >>> >>> DW >>> >>> >>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Brettski <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have an item model, and a price model.. >>>> >>>> Is it OK in terms of OO theory to access the price model directly from >>>> the item model? >>>> >>>> b >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Model-Glue Sites: >>>> Home Page: http://www.model-glue.com >>>> Documentation: http://docs.model-glue.com >>>> Bug Tracker: http://bugs.model-glue.com >>>> Blog: http://www.model-glue.com/blog >>>> >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "model-glue" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]<model-glue%[email protected]> >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/model-glue?hl=en >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> William Osler - "We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what >>> we can from life." >>> >>> -- >>> Model-Glue Sites: >>> Home Page: http://www.model-glue.com >>> Documentation: http://docs.model-glue.com >>> Bug Tracker: http://bugs.model-glue.com >>> Blog: http://www.model-glue.com/blog >>> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "model-glue" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<model-glue%[email protected]> >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/model-glue?hl=en >>> >> >> -- >> Model-Glue Sites: >> Home Page: http://www.model-glue.com >> Documentation: http://docs.model-glue.com >> Bug Tracker: http://bugs.model-glue.com >> Blog: http://www.model-glue.com/blog >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "model-glue" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<model-glue%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/model-glue?hl=en > > > -- > Model-Glue Sites: > Home Page: http://www.model-glue.com > Documentation: http://docs.model-glue.com > Bug Tracker: http://bugs.model-glue.com > Blog: http://www.model-glue.com/blog > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "model-glue" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<model-glue%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/model-glue?hl=en > -- William Osler - "We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life." -- Model-Glue Sites: Home Page: http://www.model-glue.com Documentation: http://docs.model-glue.com Bug Tracker: http://bugs.model-glue.com Blog: http://www.model-glue.com/blog You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "model-glue" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/model-glue?hl=en
