Ken Manheimer wrote:
I'm not expert on eiffel or even interfaces, but my understanding having interface "specification very near to the implementation" is misleading, at best. The key thing is that there may be many implementations, all of which should be written to the same implementation - so you do not want
Should that be 'same interface'?
the interface specification tied to any one of them.
This is a very good point! I'd be really interested in making something that supported the Catalog 'interface' but actually used the new MySQL full-text searching stuff to do the indexing/searching. However, until Catalog has a defined _interface_, I'm not even going to think about starting :-S Anyone know when that's likely to happen? cheers, Chris