I've been thinking about how to handle data lifetime scoping in flood and have come up with a solution, but I want some feedback before I jump in and do it.
Theoretically, one instance of flood might need data that is scoped at each of the following lifetimes: all farms each farm all farmers each farmer all profiles each profile and possibly also: each use of a urllist each url in a urllist and maybe even: each flood (global per-process level) Potentially, a lower-level iterator like a profile may want to store data at a higher level like a farm. I don't see it working the other way around, since farms don't know much about their farmers other than when they start and stop. So the question is: How do the lower-level iterators get access to the higher-level scopes (aka pools)? Since we'll always have this hierarchy, perhaps we can take advantage of that somehow to allow a lower level access to it's "parent's" pool? Ideas? -aaron
