On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Martin DeMello
<martindeme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sometimes there's simply no way around it. For instance, I recently
> had some python code that (stripped to its simplest form) had two
> classes, Document and Attachment, where Attachment was a specialised
> subclass of Document, but Document had a list of Attachments as one of
> its members. There was no way around packing the Document and
> Attachment classes into one big file, simply because I couldn't do
> circular module dependencies (python files are modules), but any
> refactoring of the code to remove the circular dependency left it
> *more* complicated than before.
>

In Clojure, a protocol Attachable, could have been made explaining
what are the things you need for an attachment.

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