Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/18/07 22:48

Steve wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:EM-dnb1p44ldZ3LbnZ2dnUVZ_rHinZ2d@comcast.com...
>> Michael Fesser wrote:
>>> .oO(NoDude)
>>>
>>>> @Michael - I currently use __autoload, which is a neat shortcut,
>>>> albeit it has the same speed impact as *_once (in my case, even
>>>> greater, because of directory traversing).
>>> I also traverse a lot of class directories, but only if the requested
>>> class could not be found in the class cache, where the locations of all
>>> classes are stored. In such case the cache has to be refreshed.
>>>
>>>> How I (or Steve for that matter) include our files is not (and never
>>>> was) my point however. I was just saying and still am - Using require
>>>> over require_once makes you think of what dependencies you'll have in
>>>> any given request (every single request is unaware of the dependencies
>>>> in the previous request and has its own dependencies).
>>> Knowing beforehand which classes will be required to handle a particular
>>> request is pretty much impossible in my framework. The request handlers
>>> themselves decide which of them will be responsible for answering the
>>> request and which other objects might be necessary for doing that. It's
>>> even possible that a handler instantiates some objects and then forwards
>>> the request to a sub handler, which in turn might need the informations
>>> provided by the parent handler.
>>>
>> In a properly designed framework, you can predict not only what classes
>> will be required, but what methods in those classes.
>
> not necessarily. what about a c++ framework for creating an STL. the
> framework is usually *complete* abstraction where little is known, yes?
>
>

Yep, still can. Properly designed, you will know exactly which STL
classes are required.

The key is in the design - not writing code until it works.

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