> But I also don't think there's fundamentally anything *wrong* with > using whits, since they accurately model the notion of containment, > with respect to order: classes have a "start", and a "finish", and > there's stuff in between. It doesn't really feel like a hack to me. > Ironically, they *do* feel like a hack for solving the problem of > many-to-many relationships, which was what they were intended to fix. > But as far as representing containment goes, I think they function > well.
Actually, they were intended to address the general problem of which many to many relationships, ordering, containment, etc. are examples. > It's easy to traverse the spliced graph with only a single type of > edge,...The biggest failing is really the loss of semantic > information, since it's not as easy in the transformed graph to > identify containment, which is a meaningful relationship. That's a common feature of compilation in any language though. You transform into a form that's more regular/easier to traverse by factoring out information that, while meaningful, isn't necessary for the task at hand. :) -- M -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
