Model requiring var_context on constructor?

[Daniel Lee]

Bob, I think this is really a question for you.

Do we need the var_context on the construction of the model? It doesn't look like it's actually stored. This will make it a lot easier to fix the partial inits thing.

Daniel

[Bob Carpenter]

Right --- the var_context itself isn't stored --- it's just
used to read data into the model instance. Similarly, the
var_context for dump takes an input stream, but doesn't store
the input stream --- it just reads from it during construction.

The var_context base class reference could be replaced with
something else, but something needs to get the data into the model.

I marked all the data const, so if you want to try to remove
the safe construction pattern that's there now, you have to
unmark everything as const.

I'm just guessing at what you want to do.

- Bob

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[Daniel Lee]

Sorry -- you can ignore my original email. I didn't look at a good example.

I'm headed back to the drawing board.


Daniel