Re: [GENERAL] Retrieval of OO objects.

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От Chris Bitmead
Тема Re: [GENERAL] Retrieval of OO objects.
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Ответ на Re: [GENERAL] Retrieval of OO objects.  ("Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>)
Ответы Re: [GENERAL] Retrieval of OO objects.  ("Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>)
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Oliver Elphick wrote:

> If you need features of bbb and ccc you must use those classes, not their
> ancestor.
>
> Class bbb knows about a and b and class ccc knows about a and c, but
> aaa doesn't know about b and c because they are not defined in aaa.
>
> `Vertebrate' is a descendant class of `animal'.  `Vertebrate' has a feature
> `bones', but `animal' doesn't, because the majority of animals don't have
> bones at all.
>
> This is how inheritance works in the Eiffel language, at least.

I guess the point is if you had an Eiffel collection of animals, two
Invertebrates and two vertibrates, and did a save to disk. When you
loaded the collection back in from disk you wouldn't expect to get back
4 animals, whose status as vertibrates or invertibrates is no longer
known.

In a real object database, you could say "Get all the animals", and they
would come back appropriately - some as vertibrates, some as
invertibrates. Since they come back properly we can call methods on
different types of animals and they will behave differently as
appropriate.


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