> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 1:14 PM
> To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
> Subject: [lang] Ideas for Lang
>
>
>
> Here's my list of things I mean to get around to adding soon:
>
> 1) Notifier class. I need a better name for this. Basically
> it's a helper
> that uses reflection [used to use Notifiable interface, but I
> decided it
> wasn't worth it, possibly wants to do both] to help a
> developer create an
> event/listener list.
>
> It handles the notifying and the queueing etc and the
> developer just has
> to tell it what method or Listener to use [or both if Listener has
> multiple method signatures].
>
> 2) Mutable primitive classes. Pondered this at the hospital
> today. Do we
> want such things? new MutableInteger(); mi.setValue(42);
> etc. Same for
> MutableString.
Sounds useful. I could have used such a thing many times, had it been
around.
>
> 3) Constant. I'm still unsure if this is good or not :) It's
> been in and
> out and in etc. My reasons for deciding it was shit was cuz I
> wanted to
> use == when I initially grew to love it and RMI/Java means I
> have to use
> .equals. But Enum makes that same choice. So is a simple-enum concept
> needed.
>
> 4) Pair. Is this Collections? Dunno. Anyway, pairs seem to be nice
> sometimes. I only have one because I was porting the lisp
> examples to Java
> from the lisp book [yep, i'm that sick].
Sounds good. There are lots of places this would come in handy, even without
LISP in the picture. You'll be calling the elements car and cdr, I take it?
;-)
--
Martin Cooper
>
> 5) StopWatch. Currently this is in [util], but as its
> basically a wrapper
> for System.currentLongTimeBlah I thought I'd mention it.
>
> That's all that's springing to mind right now.
>
> Hen
>
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