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I might be crazy, but as I read Steve Yegge’s essay on the Properties Pattern I felt as if I was being introduced to something I already knew. And that’s not just because the essay describes Javascript. I think that’s because Properties lists are the fundamental Drupal data structure.
This line stuck out:
I’ve talked about the main problems imposed by the Properties pattern: performance, data integrity, and navigability/queryability. They’re all trade-offs; you’re sacrificing in these areas in order to achieve big wins in flexibility and open-ended future extensibility for users you may never meet.
Yep, that sure sounds like Drupal’s $node
, $user
, and $form
objects to me.
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