Re: Ozone object identity...

[Tim Brown <tim@incenter.org>]

Falko,

What is so evil about giving the programmer the option of
doing things different ways?  If a getIdentity() or getKey()
is available and you think it is evil to use it, don't.  In
fact for most programming I can think of doing I like Ozone
the way it is.  On the other hand if a particular
enhancement (query functionality) requires a unique ID ,
then why not just implement it?

You can warn everyone of the advantages and disadvantages to
doing this ot that but, I draw the line at not documenting
something because someone "might" abuse it.  Also, if it is
abusive or evil , can you state in technical terms why?

In short I say never say no to a feature or way of doing
things if it doesn't break anything else or force someone to
change a coding approach for no reason.  Put another way, if
adding a key() helps David but I never notice while I am
programming , why should I care?

Tim

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Tim Brown
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