CC/PP-vocab comment: CC/PP Profile subclassing

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 03:05:15AM +0200, Kazuhiro Kitagawa wrote:
> Dear Holger,
>
> Yes, It is moderated.  Unfortunately, I had a rest due to traffic accidnet.

Apologies. I hope you are recovering well. Do not haste to answer this one, but
I just send it now to get it "off table".

(Although I am currently just an Univ student studying the standard at an
internship I understand that is *much* more effort to make a standard than to
bicker about it ;-) )

There is yet another question that comes to my mind: but maybe I am really
just overlooking something here:

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Profile subclassing in http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-CCPP-struct-vocab-20010315/

Although Request-profile, Client-profile and Proxy-profile all inherit
from "Profile" there are no properties (composing elements) or methods that
they share (e.g. if sb was to implement this as classes in an OO language).

Is it at least planned that they share some common accessors in future ? Or
have I overlooked something very elemental in the spec ?

Otherwise leaving the spec (what does polymorphism help a developer when
(s)he has no common methods/data structures to access
the contents?) without explanation seems misleading. In other words,
one should decide whether proxyBehavior should become a subclass of
Component, currently it is not (in 3.2.2 and B.3) or explain why one
has (not) done this.

Regards, Holger Blasum <holgerlists@blasum.net>
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It is well possible that the question is trivial or stupid just drop it
(but it would be nice giving me a one-line hint why it is superfluous).

Received on Tuesday, 3 April 2001 01:21:27 UTC