On Tuesday 19 August 2003 09:07 am, Gary McGovern wrote:
> I'm interested to know if there has been some work done into
> finding a better structure than a tree/hierarchy. I've always felt
> that it is a problem that a node can be taken out and it breaks
> those below it.
>
> Perhaps part of the problem is that the object hierarchy is
> following a pattern based on the building blocks of matter, whereas
> computing objects are based on thought and representations of
> matter. So there must be a better pattern/structure.
>
> So it seems to me.
>
> I was thinking that perhaps another layer would solve the problem.
>

Objects are not in a hierarchy. They are in a directed graph, with 
possible cycles.

Which object structure are you referring to?

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