Issue 4041: New PSS Issues:  Full Scopes for Storage Objects                                                                                                                                                        (pss-ftf)
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Summary: In the PSDL grammar of the Persistent State Service, orbos/99-07-07, it
specifically states that storage definitions are not full scopes.  That
is, they cannot contain type or constant definitions.  What is the
rationalebehind this limitation?  Storage types and homes are almost the
same as valuetypes.  It seems perfectly reasonable to have embedded
types local (encapsulated) to the storage scope that are for internal
representations only.
Resolution: rejected
Revised Text: 
Actions taken:
November 14, 2000: received issue
May 13, 2002: closed issue
Discussion: 
Storage object and homes were designed to be really simple -- in between valuetypes and structs. Like structs, they don't define scopes.
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In the PSDL grammar of the Persistent State Service, orbos/99-07-07,
it
specifically states that storage definitions are not full scopes.
That
is, they cannot contain type or constant definitions.  What is the
rationalebehind this limitation?  Storage types and homes are almost
the
same as valuetypes.  It seems perfectly reasonable to have embedded
types local (encapsulated) to the storage scope that are for internal
representations only.
 
Tom Hawker
Iconixx Incorporated