From: Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>
Date: 2004-01-20T13:49:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Metadata

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:36:26 +0900
Ralph Mason <ralph.mason@telogis.com> wrote:

<snip> 
> Or somesuch like that so you can make metadata self vaidating.

Yeah, I don't validate, but then there's no data that's really for
validation.  Strongtyping takes care of argument types (so you can
just ask), and it's pretty immediately apparent if that's wrong.

> It seems like something that would have an unlimited number of useful 
> and creative applications.

Definitely.  I use it to automatically generate "dialogs" for calling
methods.  Saves a ton of work to have everything once in once place.

It occurs to me I could have provided URL's, sorry:

    http://mephle.org/MetaTags
    http://mephle.org/StrongTyping

hth,

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