[development] nodify.module idea: 'everything is a node'

Victor Kane victorkane at gmail.com
Tue Jan 23 11:28:52 UTC 2007


absolutely, here we are speaking in terms of analogies, in somewhat
general terms, and above all in terms of real-world usability of the
api your idea is a positive one, and opens the way for future mapping
to alternative paradigms.

On 1/23/07, Chris Johnson <cxjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> fago and Victor:  I was actually thinking about polymorphism on a
> higher, more abstract level compared to having an API which can do the
> same things to a variety of different objects, e.g. nodes, users,
> vocabs, etc.  That is, imagine Drupal to be the virtual machine itself
> -- and ignore "proper" OO language ideas like class inheritance, etc.
> Anyway, an interesting comparison nonetheless.  Thanks for the
> follow-up responses.
>


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