From: William L Anderson
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 17:16
Subject: Re: FW: [Orcmid's Lair] 5/22/2004 11:46:39 AM
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Got it. I was going to copy the whole thing over to Praxis101 wiki, 
but will wait til the interface compiles. I'd like to compile it as 
well.

I like your example, Num.

-Bill

p.s. it was Cork Russell, not you.

Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> OK, here is an update.  I don't want to go farther without actually writing a compilable interface definition.  That will be next.  Then this thread can be done something with, though I am not sure what.
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> From: Dennis [mailto:noreply-comment@blogger.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 11:47
> Subject: [Orcmid's Lair] 5/22/2004 11:46:39 AM
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> 
> The "Boolean" in the interface declaration, above, should be spelled "boolean".
> 
> One thing to allow for is the fact that there can be mistakes in an expression of something.
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> Then there can be revisions and updating.  Assume, for now, that this is in pre-ALPHA state.
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> There is tacit inheritance in the use of this interface and that will have to be dealt with as well.  It is one of the places where the tacit shall be made explicit.
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> Finally, there is no question that this interface definition is platform specific.  It belongs to a specific framework and while it is abstracted from specific computer hardware, there is no question there is a tacit platform assumption.  It is the Java platform and all that entails.
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> I am just putting down some notes that will be best taken up and made into an organized discussion and description. We can do that later. 
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