On Sunday, December 26, 2004, at 10:06:11 PM, aacockburn wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> You're talking about become:? I was taught that to use that you had
>> to get written permission from Alan Kay. :)
>>
> 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.
It'd be fun to play with it and see what happens. If I were tempted
to do it within bowling, I suspect a wiser person than I, if you can
imagine such a person, would suggest using the Strategy pattern
rather than #become. But it'd be fun to try and see what happened.
Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way. -- Jessica Rabbit
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