Re: multiple attributes

[Sven N. Thommesen]

At 02:32 PM 3/14/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Sven,
>
>Maybe I misunderstood your message, but associating multiple 
>attributes with a site on a Space simply involves writing a
>corresponding data wrapper object which holds your attribute
>structure, and can give information about the corresponding data.
>
>I have examples of spaces that hold either a simple datawrapper
>at a given site or a sorted map of datawrappers, each associated
>with a keyobject, at each site. In the sorted map example the
>datawrappers are actually lists of pointers, so these 'site object
>constructions' can be many layers deep.
>
>In my experience a generalized Space class which would be able to
>do this would not be helpful, because I like give transparent
>names to method calls that set and retrieve attributes from these 
>Space subclasses and corresponding datawrappers and Maps.
>
>Code available on request, I just didn't want to clutter the
>mailinglist.
>
>-Benedikt
>

Great! 

Sounds like just what I had in mind.

You show me yours, I'll show you mine 
(in a version you can actually compile, this time ... :-)

--Sven