On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 06:05:57PM +0200, François-Xavier HOUARD wrote:
> So, as every composant can have different type of father, every object
> is parametrized by the type of his father, for example, a button in a
> panel in a window is, for the moment, typed as 
> window panel button
> as the button class looks like that:
> class ['a] button (father:'a)
> ....
> and the panel too,etc
> 
> I find it nice, cause every widget has got his "genealogic tree" in his
> type.

I'm probably missing something here, but what's wrong with having
every widget just contain an ordinary data item / method pointing to
the parent?  eg. button#parent == panel ?

Rich.

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