Personally I think the class based approach is better, but Brett liked
databases and went with the former. The one thing I think we should not
do is mix the two. Either everything is an object and you get things
through C++ calls or everything is as it is currently and you manipulate
things through helper functions. If we mix, it is hard to keep track of
what everything is and make sure that things like saving and restoring
state happen properly as well as just being ugly.
I agree 100%, and I guess I wasn't being very clear in my previous
emails, because this is exactly my position. We can do attributes, or we
can do objects, and shouldn't mix them. If it becomes clear that we have
to switch from attributes to objects, I'd much rather we do that now,
because it'll be really hard to do it later.
Ben
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