Re: Request for change to Representation

2007-04-13 Thread Thierry Boileau
Hello Justin, we are pleased to receive such a gentle post, thanks a lot. We understand your point of view, which is mainly based on an early validation at instantiation time (fail fast). Instances would be absolute, or relative and resolvable. They would be safe from the beginning and

Request for change to Representation

2007-04-12 Thread Justin C . van Vorst
Gentlemen, Currently, a Reference instance may be in any state from empty, to invalid, to relative, to absolute. In any of those states it may or may not have a baseRef. No exceptions appear until certain getter methods are called. I agree that we should be able to modify the parts of a