From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-07-05T10:03:19+09:00
Subject: Re: self_parent

Hello --

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Sean Russell wrote:

> David Alan Black wrote:
>
> > REXML is specifically modeling the parent/child relationships of XML
> > in that class, though (I think).  That's different from a
> > language-level (I mean Ruby, not XML) description of one object as the
> > "parent" of another because the second object is created by a method
> > of the first object.
>
> Yes.  A REXML parent/child relationship has nothing to do with object
> inheritance, but rather describes a contains/contained by relationship.

Moreover, the notion of "self" at the time of object creation as the
parent of the created object is actually also not related to
object inheritance -- which I think is part of what's potentially
confusing about it, though even with renaming the problems with
coupling and dependencies would remain.


David

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