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David,
I do owe you an apology for being imprecise--Llama is not tightly tied =
to the Windows API and seems to be getting less so as you develop it. =
Perhaps I should have said that Llama is very well suited to providing =
services such as those provided by the Windows API. I also did not mean =
to imply in any way that Llama was intended to be fully generic.
An example of my point is the function getMethodID() in classes.e (IF I =
understand your code correctly): this creates a method and makes it =
available to all classes. I think this is great for Windows-like =
programming where methods are largely event handlers--a real =
convenience--you declare "onClick" once and then implement it for each =
class that needs it (which will be most of them). I find this very =
thing an inconvenience in a generic system where methods are mostly not =
event handlers and where different classes have methods that may be very =
dissimilar--I don't like the concept of declaring a method that 90% of =
classes won't need and making it available to all classes. Yet I think =
this very feature was a good design decision for Llama's intended =
purpose.
--Mike Nelson
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