Re: I'm still here...

From: Magnus Lie Hetland <[email protected]>
> I guess this is the main point of contention (or one of the main
> points).
>
> It may well be that you (Samuele and Dallas) are right about this.
>
> But if we do use the model installation approach, I think also
> attribute _access_ should retrieve the value (and not the model) --
> doesn't that make sense?
>
> IOW, proxy.installFooBarModel(model) would make model.value mirror
> proxy.fooBar? Sounds like an OK solution to me.
>
> What do you say? Is this an acceptable version of the scheme?

the whole question is what in the presence of a model should

L=[...]
comp.items=L
L.insert()
comp.push('items')

do get what I presume you mean with mirror you need the above comp.items=L to
have reference-rebinding semantics, whereas a changed model modifying items
could do that with copy semantics or throw L away and replace the reference,
depending on the choice you have different behaviors?


>   1. installFooModel() for making a model mirror an Attrib attribute.
>
>   2. Use link() and 'update' events explicitly to implement the
>      mirroring.
>
> I'm still pretty open regarding which is better (or whether there are
> other alternatives that are even better than these).

under your mirror interpertation of 1. they are more or less equivalent.


> BTW: Could installFooModel be used to install more than 1 model? (The
> link() scheme could.) This could make sense, but could also be a bit
> weird... I guess the models would then be sync'ed with each other
> through the Attrib object...

I would vote for weird, rather weird :).



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