Applying the Law of Demeter

[Anna]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 02:55:54 +0000, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:

> The likely law of Demeter being discussed:
> 
>     Don't eat pomegranates from strangers.
> 
> and it was definitely something she'd have liked her daughter to learn
> :) .  Her daughter was Persephone, who became the bride of Hades after
> eating the seed of the pomegranate he gave her.  The descent of
> Persephone causes Demeter (the Earth-mother) to weep and wail and cause
> winter.  The return of Persephone causes the rejoicing we call spring.
>  There's all sorts of seed imagery associated with Persephone if I
> recall correctly (both as something she eats, and as something she
> represents in her descent into the earth and eventual rebirth).
> 
> Demeter and Persephone were worshiped by (cthonic) cults in ancient
> Greece.  There's one funky temple they showed us in class where there
> are so many columns to hold up the earth above it that it would
> apparently have been almost impossible to see the ceremonies from most
> positions in the sanctuary.
> 
> And here I thought all that architectural education was going to go to
> waste :) ,
> Mike

Okay - so, a newbie question here...

Reading this thread, it occured to me, would this Law of Demeter qualify
as a namespace issue? (Or am I totally off on that...?)

Thanks for any feedback.

Anna