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- Item 1069739 14-Feb-90 06:34PST
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- From: PASCOE1 Pascoe, Geoff
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Re: RE>Metadata limitations
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- Keith,
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- >> I also view carrying around tons of meta-information as imperfect -- too >>
- >> much baggage for my taste.
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- "Tons" seems like a slightly innappropriate characterization. Compared to the
- size of the rest of the application, a little metadata doesn't take up that
- much space. Typical classes would be well below 1KBytes and you'd also make up
- for this by removing code from your application like DoReads, DoWrites, Fields,
- and heaven knows what else, if only the programmer had convenient access to
- complete metadata.
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- More metadata. Up with metadata. Try it as a mantra- "metadata, metadata,
- metadata....". Works pretty well, don't it.
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- Geoff
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