Now it looks like a bikeshed problem to me.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#BIKESHED-PAINTING

Sorry about that.

>>>>> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:09:45 +0100, Mark Overmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

  > For my feeling, the focus of all responses till now is that the main issue
  > about user information is that it is stored in an address book.  For me, the
  > main issue is that it is easily accessible and smart.

If an Addressbook::Entry object is not easily accessible and smart it
is clearly not an option. Otherwise it might be good for reuse.

  > A User::Indentity combines information from many sources for a temporal
  > existence.  Calling the module anything which implies that it is persistent
  > information is wrong.  Calling it anything which restricts itself to a
  > single source of data is a mistake as well.

The name Addressbook::Entry does not necessarily imply persistency or
single data source. It's just a metapher everybody understands.

-- 
andreas

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