RE: [chain] evaluating to use, contrast to pipeline?

2004-11-09 Thread Eric Pugh
Thanks.. I think that for the level of usage I envision, the flexiblity of [chain] (and relative maturity) solves the problem, even though [pipeline] may in a larger sense be more appropriate for my use case. My usecase, processing data, seems to fit into exactly what [pipeline] does. In fact, I

Re: [chain] evaluating to use, contrast to pipeline?

2004-11-09 Thread Niall Pemberton
> I was also looking at [pipeline] in sandbox, and was trying to grok the > difference. What it seemed to boil down to is that in a pipeline you go > from A -> Z without ever stopping. But, in [chain] you may go from A -> Z, > but if certain conditions occur, you may stop midway at J, correct? I

[chain] evaluating to use, contrast to pipeline?

2004-11-09 Thread Eric Pugh
Hi all, Just checking out [chain], was thinking of replacing my own CoR implementation. The one thing that I have, that chain doesnt, is a visitor object. Now, I may be mixing up my GoF patterns here, but what I have are a series of steps that are ordered. I have a visitor who goes from one to