[moby] [MOBY-dev] A consequence of the new Object inheritence rules...

[Mark Wilkinson]

Just a clarification - by saying that the solution below seems more
"correct" I was not suggesting that I *support* this solution.  This
solution leads to a massive proliferation of task-specific objects;
every use of String now becomes a first-class MOBY Object, rather than
simply a "performs role" relationship as we had with articleName.

A pox on the Java-guys who don't like inheritance...  ;-)

M

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 14:03 -0800, Mark Wilkinson wrote:

> An alternative route
> would be to disallow use of primitives for anything *other* than
> containing 'content'.  That would require another extensive re-working
> of the Object ontology, but we would end up with something like this:
> 
> AnnotatedFASTA
> 	hasa String (content)
> 	hasa Description (anotation)
> 		hasa String (content)
> 
> The latter seems more "correct", but it would require us to re-write the
> ontology again...


-- 
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Mark Wilkinson
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