On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Markus Roberts wrote: > L -- > >> BTW this is discussed a bit in Analysis Patterns by Martin Fowler as the >> operational layer and knowledge layer (where the classes are at the >> operational layer and the instances are the knowledge layer). > > Yeah. I like Martin's stuff in general but on this I've never found > his distinction particularly useful. More broadly, I think I come > from a more code-is-math perspective and he's addressing it from a > code-is-process perspective (IIRC).
What about the distinction in the RAL? I think a big problem in the RAL is that Puppet::Type -> Puppet::Type::File -> File["/etc"] makes much less sense than Puppet::Type -> Puppet::Type.new(:file) and Puppet::Resource -> File["/etc"]. You can pretty easily compare these in Puppet right now - the RAL uses the class/subclass model, and the parser uses classes and instances (Puppet::Resource::Type for types, and Puppet::Resource for resources). -- I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. --J. D. Salinger --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies -|- http://puppetlabs.com -|- +1(615)594-8199 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" 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/puppet-dev?hl=en.
