I prefer the generic for v.1.
Rex
At 10:13 AM -0400 7/22/02, Rich Thompson wrote:
>The current draft spec has a generic release mechanism (releaseHandles()).
>At times more specific mechanisms have been mentioned (deregisterConsumer()
>& destroyEntities()).
>Advantages/disadvantages I see for the generic mechanism are:
>
>Advantages:
> - Single operation in the interface
> - Extensible ... can easily deal with new handle types as they are added
>to the spec.
> -
>Disadvantages:
> - Implies an inheritance relationship between handles. This isn't bad,
>but isn't required for specific mechanisms.
> - Type checking moved to the application level (this depends on how we
>specify the serialization of the handles).
> - Harder to explain as the operation is more abstract and therefore
>dependent on what is concretely passed.
> -
>
>Comments / thoughts / preferences?
>
>
>
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