Re: another take on hackers and painters

[Steve Dekorte <address@hidden>]

On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 07:24 AM, Jan-Willem Maessen wrote:
> Sure, these are all hard questions, and many of them have multiple
> reasonable answers.  The real question here is this: What do we do
> with existing instances and client classes when a class definition
> changes?
 >
> I submit that this problem exists in any language you care to
> name---just replace "class" by "data structure" and "client classes"
> by "code and data which refer to that data structure" if your language
> lacks classes.  There's no magic here.  All solutions I have seen seem
> arbitrary in one way or another.

Are you familiar with prototype-based languages?

Cheers,
Steve
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