omniORBpy / IDL mapping question...

[Martin von Loewis]

Duncan Grisby <dgrisby at uk.research.att.com> writes:

> Also, in the context of CORBA (which is where this thread started), I
> think it would be a bad thing to make a CORBA attribute look like a
> Python attribute, since it would conceal the fact that a potentially
> remote call was being made.

Exactly. In CORBA 2.4 (or 3.0, or whatever the next version may be),
you'll be able to specify exceptions on attribute get and set, which
will make the claim "an attribute is an attribute is an attribute"
even more silly; an attribute really is two operations.

Regards,
Martin