[Radiant] Part types

[Ryan Platte]

On Jul 10, 2006, at 11:15 AM, dror tirosh wrote:

> I agree, and I also think it might be a good idea for the filter  
> (which probably should be called something else in this approach)  
> to be called when the data is entered/changed by the admin  
> interface. This way a new filter might edit before DB insertion or  
> maybe put it into a different DB table, write it to a file, etc.

I strongly agree. Lifecycle hooks like that make a plugin-system much  
more loosely coupled. It's the approach that Eclipse uses, as  
discussed by JUnit co-creator and Eclipse lead Erich Gamma here:

http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/reuse3.html

Rails's monkey-patching is a lazy hack, frankly. It's understandable  
for RoR's goals, but it lacks the characteristics that will permit  
the stability available to well-designed OO systems -- which is why  
Rails plugins break, and break again. So we should do better.

I'll be happy to lead this effort if we get agreement on what to create.

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