On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:16, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote:
> From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 22:34, Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote:
> > > To me the whole point URL is that it provide the url parsing from a
> > > string all just done. So we can do:
> > >
> > >     void setUrl(URL url) {
> > >         ....
> > >     }
> > >
> > > and introspection will do all the work for us. Whether we use
> > > url.openStream() or we pass this object to our own code, it is up to
> > > us.
> >
> > I would still prefer to create ow\ur own object so we have full control
> > of it's behaviour.
>
> I have no problem with that. As long as we provide an object that
> introspection can use I have no problem. My point on this is that I would
> like to have all the parsing of strings centralized. I have seen quite a
> few places where we still use attributes as strings and then do all kinds
> of string manipulation making all kinds of unreliable assumptions that only
> consider UNIX and Windows.
>
> We need to centralize this stuff to be able to do a better porting job.

+1

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Cheers,

Pete

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