of levels of significance
for database synching
least significant would be synching
the values of attributes
for particular instances
(each instance gets
a record or a row
each attribute
a field or a column)
then slightly more significant
the addition or subtraction
of whole row-record-instances
then adding or editing
attribute-field-columns
that apply to all record-row-instances
and finally
whole new database/speadsheet/tables
with new systems of attribute-field-columns
appropriate to a whole new
object type
and in object-oriented systems
these objects are associated too
with methods
but more generally we might rename
'methods' as 'story skeletons'
each object type participating
in a usual range of stories
object-creation stories
object-change stories
object-spawning-new-objects stories
object-destruction stories
and a whole universe of
object-relationships-to-other-object-types stories
most conveniently sorted
into a local copy of the object hierarchy
(ie a fractal thicket)
.
