[Tutor] oo design/interaction quandary

[Alan Gauld]

"Brian Jones" <bkjones at gmail.com> wrote

> My app launches threads that each consume messages from a queue, send 
> them
> to a processor object, and then the processor needs to return the message 
> to
> the main thread -- if the processing was successful -- and then the main
> thread puts the message into a different queue.

Why don't the messages munge and process themselves?
What is the purpose of the processor and munger classes?
Aren't they just functions and therefore should e metjods of
the thing upon which they operate - ie Message?

HTH,

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Alan Gauld
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