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<p>On 2013-10-16 12:24, John S Warren wrote:</p>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px"><!-- html ignored --><!-- head ignored --><!-- meta ignored --><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Just to clarify, the reason I believe it is important to lay out</span> <br /><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">high-level design alternatives and their implications is because it</span> <br /><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">will help in making decisions about how the Message class is to be</span> <br /><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">changed. In other words, the requirements for a class's behavior</span> <br /><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">might be drastically different, depending on whether it is a</span> <br /><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">replacement for an existing type (in which case all the possible</span> <br /><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">use-cases of the existing vs. new type need to be taken into</span> <br /><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">account) or it is going to be used in a new context, where adherence</span> <br /><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">to existing behaviors is not a factor.</span> <br /><br /><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">My hope was that the design alternatives might be discussed,</span> <br /><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">possibly other alternatives proposed, and finally an alternative</span> <br /><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">chosen before proceeding with discussions about implementation</span> <br /><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">details.</span> </blockquote>
<p>Hi John,</p>
<p>Have you seen the discussion from the last Oslo meeting? http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/oslo/2013/oslo.2013-10-11-14.00.log.txt</p>
<p>I think a lot of these issues came up there.</p>
<p>-Ben</p>
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