Magritte Validation Error

[Lukas Renggli]

>> How about #descriptions which is a common naming for
>> collections of anything ?

I don't like this, because you don't get a collection of single  
descriptions, but a container of descriptions that is a description  
(singular) itself (and accidently responds to the collection protocol).

> with it, but I really do feel it should be a conversion method.  When
> you want a component, you say anObject asComponent, when you want a
> description, why not anObject asDescription?  The description isn't a
> property of the object, it's a different representation of it, a meta
> representation.

It is definitely not a conversion method, the resulting description  
is completely independent from the receiver of the message: it can be  
recomposed, reused with or without any other model instance. What is  
more, have you ever seen an #asClass conversion method to ask your  
instance for its meta-representation (#class)?

Lukas

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