On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 05:10, Garrett Goebel wrote: > Several people have mentioned a desire to see Perl6 and Parrot > facilitate object persistence. Should such issues be tackled in Parrot?
Not necessarily. Just be friendly to object persistence frameworks by exporting object relationships in a sensible and consistent manner. It is those relationships that drive the object persistence frameworks, and implementations of the object structure in various languages. The exact semantics and mechanisms of object persistence are still quite a research topic, so it is not appropriate yet to select one method as the best. However, I believe that the concepts of Object, Attribute, Association, Methods are stable. > What does parrot need to facilitate object persistence and > cross-language OO? Obviously the OMG's UML and family of specifications > deal with these issues. What other practical approaches exist? UML does not deal with persistence. It deals with specifying and modelling objects. I think that right now persistence fairly and squarely belongs outside of Parrot :-). -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I dont have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem. ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
