From: "Zachary P. Landau" <kapheine@...>
Date: 2004-08-29T10:24:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Design advice

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> The approach of perl's Palm::PDB is to create an abstract record
> handler class and create a new child of the record handler class for
> each application.  The Palm::PDB class calls the record-handling
> functions of whatever handler the programmer includes.
>=20
> I'm debating between this approach, and simply creating a parent PDB
> class with empty functions for handling records and creating
> descendents of this parent class with filled-in methods for record
> handling as well as application-specific methods.
>=20
> Any suggestions?

I would probably go with the second option, just because that method is
used more often and is more traditional.  But I don't really think there
is much of a difference in the end.

Good luck with the project, I'll definitely be interested in using it
once you have it finished.

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Zachary P. Landau <kapheine@hypa.net>
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