Re: How should a container class "know" its contained objects?

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:15:05 -0800 (PST), Veloz wrote:

But, then, where does that leave the modeling of the data? Does the
data not deserve some representation in our application?

Data are fully described/determined by the behavior of. 312 behaves as
integer and is nothing beyond that. You can create such object in your
head, on paper or in a program.

The obvious answer is "yes", that data needs to be modeled in some
way.

The answer is "no". Data is already a model.

A certain confusion may arise when that model exists outside the
computational space. Like integers do. They belong to mathematics. So the
type int models mathematical objects integers which in turn model something
else. Data in the program are ints, not integers.

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