- default recommendation is to implement DiffMutable interface
- ability to pick up similar non-virtual method on target
- for anything else client shall provide free function mutatorBinding(subject)
PERSONAL NOTE: this is the first commit after an extended leave,
where I was in hospital to get an abdominal cancer removed.
Right now it looks like surgery was successful.
- we use a GenNode element
- this holds a polymorphic value known as DataCap
- besides simple attribute values, this may hold collections of GenNode sub elements
- a special kind of GenNode collection, the Record, is used to represent objects
The purpose of this setup is to enable an external model representation
which is only loosely coupled to the interndal data representation
through the exchange of (tree)diff messages
Previously, I've added an additional '&' to be able
to pass references without much ado. This turned out
to be problematic when using constant values at the
invocation site. Well. C++ has really a fixation
ont passing things by value. This is fine, but
doesn't play so well at times when passing smart-ptrs
or similar ref-counting stuff, especially when we just
want to *use* the handle, not store it away.
Essentially the same situation as with for_each
Bottom line: from now on, we need to state the
template parameter for such arguments explicitly,
or just accept the overhead of creating an additional
transient copy of the smart-ptr.
Using a policy based switch in case the client
interface collaborates and provides copy operations;
in this case, a direct static downcast instead of
the expensive indirect (dynamic) cast to the
management interface can be employed.
