[FWP] more extemporaneous OO theory : what nodes are

["David L. Nicol" <david@kasey.umkc.edu>]

Uri Guttman wrote:

> i was using node but i just got tired of it. too overused even though
> it describes it well. damian is very in favor of that term as well.
> 
> uri

I think of nodes as a fundamental unit of managed memory, like
a page.


I also use them as a fundamental base class of things in linked lists. 
Objects that inherit from nodes have the same list manipulation methods,
like "next" and "last" and "list-i-am-in."


"node" is more of an implementation point of view than a data to problem
mapping like "object."




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                          David Nicol 816.235.1187 nicold@umkc.edu
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