[plug] Data Abstraction

[Onno Benschop]

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 18:19, Onno Benschop wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 17:48, James Devenish wrote:
> > In message <1071642942.22241.133.camel at latte.internal.itmaze.com.au>
> > on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:35:43PM +1100, Onno Benschop wrote:
> I need for items to know about descriptors, and for descriptors to know
> about blobs, but I don't want items to access blobs directly.

A private response classified this thus:

> Can you not use a line like
>
> Item_ref.blobname = Item_ref.descriptor_ref.blob_ref.name

Which is exactly what I'm talking about, but of course, I can't refer to
something that doesn't yet exist, nor can I use this particular
construct in PHP AFAIK...

Onno Benschop 

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