[Seaside] Seaside Components: Parent / Children

[Ramon Leon]

> From: seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:seaside-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf 
> Of Colin Putney
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 1:50 PM
> To: The Squeak Enterprise Aubergines Server - general discussion.
> Subject: Re: [Seaside] Seaside Components: Parent / Children
> 
> 
> On May 15, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Avi Bryant wrote:
> 
> > So why not have the different WATasks configure the 
> WAComponent they 
> > are creating slightly differently?
> > I'm generally quite suspicious of code that knows too much implicit 
> > info about the context in which it is used.
> 
> Indeed, the whole point of call/answer is so that components 
> don't have to know about their context.
> 
> Colin

Too true, this seems to be a common thing when learning objects, trying
to make them too smart and reaching out to fetch the data they should
have been constructed with in the first place.