On 10/9/07, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 21:37 -0400, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > > > > does a lawn mower not have blades; and gas and a control panel; does it > not > > have > > wheels? my object modeling of a lawn mower would certainly have these > > things; > > and most likely i would mark components of the engine as private. > > and what does a lawn mower cut anyway; grass; i thought that was it. so > if > > there > > was no grass could there still be an algorithm to cut it? > > i say grass is part of the grass-cutting algorithm. > > Well it helps to refine the algorithm, but let's say we use fingers > instead as our measure... I'm sure we would find that we could cut grass > also >:) good point. the lawn mower is still consistent of its own parts and they comprise its implementation. -nathan
