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2014-12-05 13:57 GMT+01:00 James O Coplien <jcoplien@gmail.com>:
Jim Coplien asked Rune, on 5December 2014:

//Can you please explain for us why you made such rebinding illegal? :-) I sense some unclarity about this. ;-)//

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I gave an example in Oslo on why I think rebinding conflicts with my personal mental model of a context. If you, Trygve and I are discussing DCI we can take certain things for granted. We have a pretty good idea of where we differ in opinions and where we share mental models. That gives us a way of understanding how the context execute. If you replace me with Matt you have a similar idea of view points but you can't use the reasoning from the first context to understand the second.

Another example would be that of a computer. Let's say the computer is the context how many role players can I replace with other players before it's a new context? Can I rebind the CPU role? GPU role? the Chassis role? if so can I rebind all of them and still claim it's the same computer?

That's the mental model argument.

Another would be based on an example

I have a context with two accounts and I want to transfer money between the two.
Would I want during the execution of said context that one of the accounts is changed?
I'd then transfer out of account A believing the money would go to account B but in between I switched the roleplayer to account C (or at least if the role binding is mutable I don't know if that happened) So if that can happen how do I reason about the code from reading the context source?  I need to know how the roleplayers might affect the context during execution however in that case I can only know the roleplayers at compile time if I can solve an NP-complete problem.
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