StringStack is now deprecated as you propose. Stephen
----- Original Message ----- From: "John McNally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:19 PM Subject: [collections][lang] deprecate StringStack > This class is badly named and I am not sure it belongs in collections. > The original use of this class was to join sql fragments together to > form a where clause or a list of columns, etc. So its class doc should > be something like: > > This class provides a way to collect a list of unique strings and join > them with an optional separator. > > This behavour is almost similar to StringUtils.join method though that > does not handle the unique requirement. Maybe a suitable replacement > could be added to lang.StringUtils? > > StringStack's original source was torque and we will adjust to the > removal of the class. It really should be deprecated, I'm not sure I > see the value in trying to create a Stack or List implementation out of > the current class. > > john mcnally > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>