Tango quibbles - please write tickets so we can track them

[Matti Niemenmaa]

kris wrote:
> Matti Niemenmaa wrote:
>> There's still some stuff I don't quite get, though. For instance, IConduit 
>> and IBuffer: everything seems to inherit from Conduit or Buffer, so why 
>> have the basic interfaces? Expanding on the reasons behind the whole design
>> (and the terminology) might be a good idea.
> 
> Tango often uses interfaces to decouple implementation: you can operate via 
> an interface (handed to you as an argument) without importing any concrete 
> implementation. In a library of any size, this really helps to avoid tight- 
> or cross-coupling.
> 
> It means, for example, that other (more traditional) interfaces can rely on 
> remaining 'pure', in that they only ever import other interfaces and not some
> specific implementation code.

Great, now go and put that in the manual! (Unless it's already there somewhere
and I missed it.)

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