Posted by www.douglassdavis.com on 09/18/05 17:29

raf wrote:
....
> represented bus boys? The PHP problem was one level of concern, but if
> we had more insight into what you were trying to do it would make things
> easier.
>
> names matter.
>
> raf
>
> > sure.. that's an option. Since it's just a bunch of data that doesn't
> > change, I was wondering if i could use member variables to represent
> > them, rather than classes... But, good suggestion though.
>
> "bunch of data"? where the abstraction, man? "I've got a loverly bunch
> of data... here they are, standing in a row"

exactly.

And thanks for solving the problem, that you knew nothing about. :-|

> > Because we actually like programming in PHP :)
>
> Just like Eiffel and Ada programmers, I suppose.

Ok, I'll give you Eiffel... Although many of the users are academic,
rather than real world. I remember I had to take a class on it. As
far as Ada goes, there's a significant number of people who program in
Ada because they -have- to.


Also, there is a difference between being "correct" and being
"practical." ;-)

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