[Os-project-managers] Equal or equivalent?

[Jun Ma]

We can talk about tomorrow.
For now,  I think the data structure should honor the binding. So Gus' two 
example, would be different, even though they functionally mean the same.
Since functionally they are the same, the equality function should evaluate 
to true by allowing both cases.

I am against Kipp's suggestion to change the schema so that 
<initVariableValues>  is only present when numberOfVar is strictly positive.

Jun


>> Since we are meeting tomorrow we can hash this together, but a few 
>> thoughts.
>>
>> Given
>>
>> <variables>
>>       <initVariableValues numberOfVar="0"/>
>> </variables>
>>
>> why is it necessary to instantiate an initVariableValues object?  I
>> assume you do this because as soon as the parser sees <initVariableValues
>>
>> it automatically instantiates an object in this class? Is this case?
>
> Yes, this is the case. I guess I can move the 'new' command in the parser 
> to
> a point where we know that numberOfVar is greater than 0. This is a good
> point. I had not thought of it.
>
>> Is
>> there something logically wrong with the member
>>
>> initVariableValues
>>
>> being null if numberOfVar="0"?
>
> I can't see it. In fact, as I said in my original message I consider the 
> two
> versions to be functionally equivalent, and it is clear that in version 2
> initVariableValues will be NULL. It therefore seems OK to make/keep it 
> NULL
> when reading version 1 also.
>
>> If we change the schema so that <initVariableValues>  is
>> only present when numberOfVar is strictly positive or we introducing an
>> inconsistency with some part of some other schema?
>
> Not if we do it everywhere there is a numberOf... that is equal to zero. 
> But the
> point is well taken: This restriction is not backwards compatible. I did 
> not
> really think we should go with that particular approach and onl ymentioned 
> it
> to be complete.
>
> Cheers
>
> gus
>
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