SystemSpecifyer, was Re: [ZODB-Dev] How to predict George Bailey?

Christian Reis kiko@async.com.br
Wed, 6 Nov 2002 19:29:55 -0200


On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:16:13PM +0000, Toby Dickenson wrote:
> On Sunday 03 November 2002 6:36 pm, Magnus Lycka wrote:
> 
> > Let's pretend this is a word processor. Should I drop and
> > reload my document every time I press Ctrl-S or Ctrl-Z?
> 
> If this word processor is implemented using a M/V/C model, then it would be 
> natural for the View to store its own state using its own view-domain 
> properties. It would not be natural for the view to store references to 
> objects in the Document.
> 
> This means that the View is constantly acquiring references to document 
> objects, but then dropping them. 

Does this mean a sort of "syncing"; loading state from the document
object and storing it internally?

Take care,
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