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At 17:23 24/01/2002 -0600, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >Series of processes? That sounds like arch forms and/or PIs if one >doesn't want to Java. Putting that processing information stuff into the instances is just exacerbating the problem. Data should stand on its own two feet. RNG is absolutely right in my opinion - the data is finite - the things you might want to do with it are infinite - don't embed processing information in long lived data because the data will outlive the processing model. PIs and so on are fine for assembly of throw-away renderings but I hate to see them embedded in the core data. As for the series of processes - that is what the XPipe[1] effort is about. A number of other initiatives have similar goals - flexible declarative expression of processing to be performed on instances *outside* of the instances themselves. regards, Sean [1] http://xpipe.sourceforge.net
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