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Re: Helper functions



Daniel Russel wrote:
To cover a loose end in my last email, I am not sure that providing a subclass of Particle called Container which provides more direct access to children and parents would be such a good idea. Why should we just do it for Containers? Why not geometric particles? Spherical particles? If we head that route we should probably just chuck the get_string, get_int sort of access entirely and just have a real class hierarchy.

That is certainly a possibility. I'm trying to see how we'd use the existing attributes to encode hierarchy without having to add a lot of logic to them, and I agree with you that if we need to do that, we'll probably either be going down the inner platform road or will need to use real classes.

	Ben
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