On Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:44:22 +0100 (MET),
Andreas Kraft <kraft@fokus.gmd.de> said:
> Hello Guido and colleagues,
>
> On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Grassel Guido NRC/Hki wrote:
>
> > 1. Definition of this event is in Root class, the consequence is that also
> > Group classes inherit this event. Do Group objects need to send this event,
> > and what could that be useful for?
>
> I would say that Group objects do indeed inherit the event, but never
> generate one because they have no content.
>
> > 2. Do those Ingredient classes which are not allowed to have content data
> > (f.ex. Rectangle class) generate the ContentAvailable event? The wording in
> > section 8.2 is unclear about that.
>
> I think it is not.
>
> 8.2 (Root, Events, ContentAvailable) says:
> "This event is generated when the object and its content are available..."
>
> Therefore, objects which have no Content do never generate the event.
I think you are right and I can read the standard favorably, but in
Section 8.3 Preparetion sequence 6. says Generate a ContentAvailable
event without NOTES. Does this cause misreading of readers ?
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