= The Design of Data Structures =

Like all approaches to software design, there is a delicate balance between
genericity and over-abstraction. The goal of generic programming is to produce
highly adapbtable components, and yet the more adapatable the component, the
less usable it becomes. With the policy featuers of the Origin core, it is
possible to completely decouple the declaration of a data structure from its
underlying composition or implementation. This is dangerous because it can
fundamentally "wash out" the crispness of an abstraction.

The question becomes, what is the best approach to take when defining generic
data structures?