[Interface-dev] [Fwd: Re: Interfaces status and coordination]

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 08:19, Jim Fulton wrote:

> But ... we have this new religion of adapters that tells me we should
> be able to do this without resorting to subclassing. Of course, this
> would require some long-overdue changes to the way the current interface
> implementation works internaly.

I wish I had a better way to describe this, but working with Imagination
(the most exhaustive use of a components system that I've got experience
with) I've come to believe that a component system actually enhances the
value of subclassing in certain conditions.  Adapters are for combining
and adding functionality.  Subclassing is for changing and overriding
functionality.  This seems to fall squarely into the latter category...

What are the changes you are referring to in the internals though?