Checking contextual integrity

[Cantor, Scott]

On 5/30/13 1:07 PM, "Ian Young" <ian at iay.org.uk> wrote:

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>On 30 May 2013, at 17:56, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
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>> Indeterminate result.
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>I'm assuming we've considered and rejected the handler-chain kind of
>pattern, where you have two boolean methods:
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>	boolean applicable();
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>and
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>	boolean apply();
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>Which I guess is rather like the higher level pattern used for attribute
>filtering, come to think of it.

I hadn't. If that looks cleaner, ok, but I think it would still break from
the Predicate interface anyway.

My intuition is that it might be slower in some cases, requiring
duplication of activity in the two boolean methods.

-- Scott