Stephen: Thanks for the note. Functors seems to contain many of the things that I've also created. I'll look more closely at this, factor out the overlap. May I send you a zip file with the remaining classes?
BTW, what timeframe is this package refactoring of the collections patterns slated for? I'd like to make use of these classes in conjunction with [collections] in a project that I'm starting up. As of now, I won't be able to do this easily. I'd need to create adapters for each of the [collections] and counterpart [lang][functor] interfaces. I can understand why you'd want to move these patterns out of Collections, however, Collections has been 'discovered' by the development community and is, in my estimation, in fairly wide use. I've run across it in several projects. Such a refactoring will have an obvious ripple effect. Have you considered modifying the interfaces in collections to simply extend their new counterparts in lang.functor ? Thanks, Tom P.S. Thanks for the hint about brackets in the subject. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 11:47 AM Subject: [collections][lang] Predicate etc impls, was Re: commons-collections: New code contribution. > [please note the square brackets in the title ;-)] > > This has been a hot topic before in commons. The current position is that there is a large body of code such as what you suggest already coded. It resides in [lang]s functor package (not released yet). However, the classes use a different Predicate interface from [collections], which needs to be resolved. > > The plan is to make [collections] depend on [lang] and deprecate the Predicate etc. interfaces in [collections]. > > Can you take a look at the [lang] code, and see if you have any Predicate/Transformer/Executor implementations which are not in the functor package. If so, I'd like to add to the [lang] version. > > Stephen > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
