Re: Nobody cares about the aggregation bug?

At 09:10 PM 5/22/2003 +0200, Marcus Börger wrote:

At 21:00 22.05.2003, Andi Gutmans wrote:

At 08:31 PM 5/22/2003 +0200, Marcus Börger wrote:

At 18:26 22.05.2003, Wei He wrote:

Hi, It seems that nobody cares about the aggregation bug. I know someone can avoid using aggregation by proxy calls or even method duplication like what I'm doing now. But what I'm warrying about is that what if it is a zend hash bug. It might affect some other places at expected moments and thus costing a lot of time of many people.

aggregation is still to be considered, whether it makes it into ze2 or be dropped or fixed or replaced by other oo goodies. (So far there was no final decision from zend).

I remember agreeing that interfaces is going to be the aggregation alternative at the language level. If people want to build on top of this outside of Zend, although I'm not sure it's a good idea, this can be done.

Really? I can only remember that aggregation should be moved to the engine. And aggregation is far away from interfaces. However there is still a debate on delegates open. They are close to aggregation when done at runtime. But i would like them as in delphi and there they are done at compile time. So actually i think we could have all three, can't we?

I'm not quite sure what the difference between aggregation and delegation is. I usually think of delegation as aggregation with auto-proxy (although I guess it can also delegate to a non-aggregated object). I think this can all be implemented in user-land by using interfaces like in Java. I don't really want to bloat the engine anymore in this area unless it is something crucial. Andi