Re: Re: Suggestions for class design

Michael Sims wrote:

Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote:

Once he understands how to solve class abstraction problems such as the one he is asking about, he will be better equipped to deal with a wider range of application development tasks.

I agree with this.

This is not to trivialize your Metastorage project (or, to be more accurate, I know nothing about it, so it's not my place to trivialize it or otherwise), but to point out that 'out-of-the-box' solutions to fundamental coding development problems probably ultimately makes for a poorer programmer. I could well be wrong, but it seems this is a case of "give a man a fish" as opposed to "teach a man to fish".

I see your point, but I'm not so sure I agree fully. Manuel suggested Metastorage (which makes sense, it's his project and he's most familiar/comfortable with it), I suggested Propel because that is what I've

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Sorry, I didn't mean to ramble on that long... :)

no need, very good piece of writing on the subject matter imho!