Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-13 Thread Rocco Caputo
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 11:22:05PM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: > > Second: Maybe I am misreading things a bit. It appears that the actual > level of abstraction in this system is not much higher than exists for the > current PoCo set of packages. I was hoping for something much higher > level tha

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-11 Thread Richard Soderberg
Can this discussion thread be moved to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, please? It's much more appropriate there. Thanks :) R. On Sunday, August 11, 2002, at 05:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 12:15:20AM +0200, Arthur Bergman wrote: >> >> On fredag, augusti 9, 2002, at

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-11 Thread tr16
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 02:22:58PM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: > On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 14:18:57 -0400 Rocco Caputo wrote: > +-- > | You bring up an interesting question in passing. What should POE's > | components be called? POE::Component, POE::Class, POE::Object? > +--

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-11 Thread tr16
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 11:22:05PM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: > On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 21:32:33 -0400 Rocco Caputo wrote: > +-- > | Good morning. > | > | I am pleased to announce that POE's mythical object system has the > | beginnings of a practical design and specification. As

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-11 Thread tr16
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 12:15:20AM +0200, Arthur Bergman wrote: > > On fredag, augusti 9, 2002, at 03:33 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Then go take that time and improve ithreads performance ! :) > > That's a prerequisite for transaction support somehow ... > > > > torvald > > > > How so

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-10 Thread Rocco Caputo
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 11:22:05PM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: > > First: Are you abandoning plain perl? Will POE become a preprocessor > that chews on both code and pod/markup segments to build the final > system? I'm not sure I like that idea much. I enjoy a clean > separation between doc and

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread Rocco Caputo
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 11:45:20AM +0200, Arthur Bergman wrote: > > Mind blowing work, I am very impressed and feel ready to work on a new > version of PoCo::HTTPD, > > A quick comment is that it seems to lack any transactional > environment/rules, is this intentional? Sorry, no. Thanks for

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread Rocco Caputo
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 12:15:20AM +0200, Arthur Bergman wrote: > > On fredag, augusti 9, 2002, at 03:33 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >Then go take that time and improve ithreads performance ! :) > >That's a prerequisite for transaction support somehow ... > > How so? And whats wrong with th

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread Arthur Bergman
On fredag, augusti 9, 2002, at 03:33 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Then go take that time and improve ithreads performance ! :) > That's a prerequisite for transaction support somehow ... > > torvald > How so? And whats wrong with the performance? Arthur

RE: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread Erick Calder
5:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Rocco Caputo; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again) On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 07:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I meant was something different. A directory in which components > can > publ

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread Al Tobey
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 14:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:27:02PM -0400, Al Tobey wrote: > > Note that I think creating a custom description language/format within > > POE would likely be much more efficient than using UML. I don't > > remember seeing any UML-type modules

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread tr16
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 10:25:17AM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: > On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:09:36 -0500 Garrett Goebel wrote: > +-- > | From: Rocco Caputo > | > I keep looking at UML, but nothing on the web has made much of an > | > impression with me. Is there a good book about UML

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread tr16
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:27:02PM -0400, Al Tobey wrote: > Note that I think creating a custom description language/format within > POE would likely be much more efficient than using UML. I don't > remember seeing any UML-type modules on CPAN. Although, the XML modules > are quite nice - I've u

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread Al Tobey
> Well, generating Perl should be possible then. I think the approach > of embedding the description (UML or Rocco's notation) in the Perl > code is better. There are tools that try to generate UML from code, but > this is hard, and probably impossible for Perl code. Additionally, > POE does want

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread Chris Fedde
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:09:36 -0500 Garrett Goebel wrote: +-- | From: Rocco Caputo | > I keep looking at UML, but nothing on the web has made much of an | > impression with me. Is there a good book about UML? | | UML Distilled: www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020165783X |

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread Richard Soderberg
On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 07:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I meant was something different. A directory in which components > can > publish their services can be helpful, like you said. > The interfaces I'm talking about are real roles that components claim > to be > able to play

RE: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread Garrett Goebel
From: Rocco Caputo > I keep looking at UML, but nothing on the web has made much of an > impression with me. Is there a good book about UML? UML Distilled: www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020165783X > POE users should not be required to know UML. It its done well, consumers of UML diagrams ha

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread tr16
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 10:43:01AM -0400, Al Tobey wrote: > Dia (http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/) can draw UML, but can only > generate C++ and Java (using a separate tool). I've used it for > documentation purposes, but not much else. It's part of GNOME, it's > free, it's written in C. We

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread Al Tobey
Dia (http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/) can draw UML, but can only generate C++ and Java (using a separate tool). I've used it for documentation purposes, but not much else. It's part of GNOME, it's free, it's written in C. -Al Tobey BTW, still working on marionette licensing. Slow as mola

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread tr16
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:30:00AM -0400, Richard Soderberg wrote: > On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 07:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > What I meant was something different. A directory in which components > > can > > publish their services can be helpful, like you said. > > The interfac

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread tr16
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 01:47:27PM +0200, Arthur Bergman wrote: > > I agree, transactions are often overkill and can be heavy, designing in > support for transactions that can be enabled and added in the future > would be very cool. > > We have all the time in the world :-) Then go take that

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread Arthur Bergman
On fredag, augusti 9, 2002, at 01:42 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Arthur's question towards transaction support would be the real, big > solution. > It would be really cool to support transactions, and if you have full > control > about the input that goes into components you can do rollback,

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread tr16
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 03:18:55AM -0400, Rocco Caputo wrote: > The issue then becomes: How do specific instances of these anonymous, > dynamic components communicate with each other? > > The difficult part of this problem is specifying the path for messages > to travel. How do you link an insta

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-09 Thread Arthur Bergman
On torsdag, augusti 8, 2002, at 03:32 , Rocco Caputo wrote: > Good morning. > > I am pleased to announce that POE's mythical object system has the > beginnings of a practical design and specification. As a POE user, > you may be directly affected by the course of its development. > Therefore I

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-08 Thread Rocco Caputo
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 01:41:46AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > > here are my comments: > > -detailed information about aggregates: > components not only provide methods, they can hold data as well. > so you might need several components of one type, and you might want > to share t

Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Object Systems Yet Again)

2002-08-08 Thread tr16
hi, here are my comments: -detailed information about aggregates: components not only provide methods, they can hold data as well. so you might need several components of one type, and you might want to share them with other aggregated components. so the namespace that is filled with informa