From: Andrew Stone <stonelists@...>
Date: 2007-02-18T10:40:58+09:00
Subject: Re: More flexible inheritance

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I'm actually in the middle of a week long argument concerning "fat models"
versus "thin models" and with my approach being fat libraries and thin
models.  We have a few sites which will share a lot of functionality and
instead of sharing the models, I like sharing libraries that are included in
the models.  The idea being that this is easy to do with svn externals on
the lib directory.  Then fix a bug or add functionality in one place.  Even
though this gives two places to look for methods, I think it's nice and
clean.

Even though my example is for a specific implementation, the idea of classes
becoming containers of modules is a great solution to sharing functionality.

I'm pleased to hear others are thinking this way.

-andy

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Andrew Stone

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