Re: Methods, Inheritance, Exceptions, etc. (was: Re: Methods in SMIng ?)

["Joel M. Halpern" <joel@longsys.com>]

I believe that the relevant counter-argument is that people are already 
doing those ugly things by hand, without the clarity that comes from 
explicit method descriptions.  Continuing to use a kludge because that is 
what people have done does not seem a good answer when we can do 
significantly better.

Yours,
Joel M. Halpern

At 10:42 AM 5/2/01 +0200, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
>My argument for
>postponing methods is based on the observation that SNMP as well as
>COPS currently do not support method invocation natively and so you
>either have a feature in the data definition language which you can't
>use in practice (at least with SNMP and COPS-PR) or you have to do
>really ugly things to emulate generic method calls on top of what SNMP
>and COPS provides you.