Another try on groves

[Geir Ove Grønmo]

* Ken MacLeod
| Francis Norton <francis at redrice.com> writes:
| 
| > Now that I have some feeling for the rationale behind Groves, I'd be
| > very interested in knowing what this might mean for implementations.
| > 
| > Could one come up with a language independent API like the DOM, to
| > which Grove compliant APIs would conform? Presumably there is more
| > complexity in that the DOM has a closed set of underlying object
| > types whereas each Grove interface would would have different
| > underlying object types. In Java terms, would this be an interface
| > (a totally abstract class which guarantees a core functionality in
| > any object which implements it)? Has anyone in fact built CORBA IDL
| > or a Java interface defining the Grove API, or am I coming in at the
| > wrong level?
| 
| I'd like to believe you're coming in at the wrong level.  Many
| languages have built-in syntax to access ``members of objects'' or
| ``fields of records'' that can often be applied to accessing
| ``properties of nodes''.  In this case, the grove API is the
| language's native syntax.
| 
| Where native syntax is not applicable, groves most closely resemble
| container classes (dictionaries, mappings, hash tables; lists, arrays,
| sequences).  Again, a language's standard container class interface or
| protocol can be used.

Yes. Think of it more as a data structure instead of as an API, since
there are no methods involved.

Geir O.

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