Daniel Russel wrote: > To cover a loose end in my last email, I am not sure that providing a > subclass of Particle called Container which provides more direct access > to children and parents would be such a good idea. Why should we just do > it for Containers? Why not geometric particles? Spherical particles? If > we head that route we should probably just chuck the get_string, get_int > sort of access entirely and just have a real class hierarchy.
That is certainly a possibility. I'm trying to see how we'd use the existing attributes to encode hierarchy without having to add a lot of logic to them, and I agree with you that if we need to do that, we'll probably either be going down the inner platform road or will need to use real classes.
Ben