I mean, leaky abstractions. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a side-effect of Tapestry's static structure approach. A > component X embedded in the template of component Y is instantiated as > an object attached to object Y. This instantiation happens once, at > page load time. > > For X to be recursive (to contain an X), we would need to instantiate > X and as part of that, instantiation another X to place inside the > first X. To create the second X we need to instantiate a third X ... > you can see where this goes. > > In theory, we could construct the component heirarchy for the page on > an as-needed basis, but that might cause its own problems (including > performance issues) and a while different set of lazy abstractions! > > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Pierce T. Wetter III <pie...@paceap.com> > wrote: >> >> Just out of curiosity, why no recursive components? I re-implemented my >> navigation menu using a solution I found on Google, but it would have been a >> lot simpler if the menu items had been recursive instead having to use >> delegate stuff that felt very much like voodoo... >> >> Pierce >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org >> >> > > > > -- > Howard M. Lewis Ship > > Creator of Apache Tapestry > > The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to > learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast! > > (971) 678-5210 > http://howardlewisship.com >
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