22 Jan
2007
22 Jan
'07
9:33 p.m.
Aren't we really talking polymorphism here when we say we want to use the something like the node API "toolkit" on other objects? If I read and understand correctly, there are 2 major suggestions. One group wants to make more objects be nodes, so that this benefit is gained. Others don't want some other object types to be nodes and have suggested generalizing the node API to obtain the benefits. Using node-like API functions on other objects sounds like polymorphism to me, which is a "solved problem" so to speak. Any Java or C++ programmers out there who might comment on this? (I only know enough Java and C++ to be dangerous. :-)