"Assignment Style" vs. "Functional Style"

Hi everyone,

I tried to capture the issues we discussed
on the last telecon regarding whether UIMA's component/service interfaces
should use an assignment style (take a CAS and update it) or a functional
style (take a CAS and return a new CAS).  See the attached document.

Thilo and/or Thomas probably have more
that they would like to add to this discussion.  Anyone else is of
course free to jump in as well.

Regards,

  -Adam

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 Adam Lally

 Advisory Software Engineer 

 UIMA Framework Lead Developer

 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

 Hawthorne, NY, 10532

 Tel: 914-784-7706,  T/L: 863-7706

 
AssignmentVsFunctionalStyle.doc