> But I also don't think there's fundamentally anything *wrong* with > using whits, since they accurately model the notion of containment, > with respect to order: classes have a "start", and a "finish", and > there's stuff in between. It doesn't really feel like a hack to me. > Ironically, they *do* feel like a hack for solving the problem of > many-to-many relationships, which was what they were intended to fix. > But as far as representing containment goes, I think they function > well.
Actually, they were intended to address the general problem of which many to many relationships, ordering, containment, etc. are examples. > It's easy to traverse the spliced graph with only a single type of > edge,...The biggest failing is really the loss of semantic > information, since it's not as easy in the transformed graph to > identify containment, which is a meaningful relationship. That's a common feature of compilation in any language though. You transform into a form that's more regular/easier to traverse by factoring out information that, while meaningful, isn't necessary for the task at hand. :) -- M -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
