Quoting aacockburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ron Jeffries
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> > You're talking about become:? I was taught that to use that you had
> > to get written permission from Alan Kay. :)
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> I've never used it, for essentially that reason. But
> things 'becoming' other types of things is so normal and common in
> business ('becoming' an AmX gold card member, a Platinum level
> frequent flyer, etc.) that I'm increasingly tempted to play with it
> as though it were standard issue business rule.
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To me, those examples seem more like turning on account options, rather than
recreating/reinstantiating the account. Does the "become" feature create a new
instance of the object, or does it rework the innards of the existing object?
Gary Brown
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