The functors have been one of the most discussed and fought about pieces of code in commons.
View A is that they should reside in [lang] and [collections] should depend on [lang]. View B is that each commons component should be independent if possible, and that these are primarily [collections] influenced functors. I fought for option A for a long time, but a realistic position needed to prevail and option B won out. As far as your problem goes, the Factory classes are exactly the same in [collections] as were in [lang]. One problem with having them in [lang] was that these classes were not a full functor implementation. That can be found in [functor]. There may be a case for additional factory-like behaviour in [lang] at some point, but I don't want to duplicate the [collections] code. Stephen > from: "Christian (SerpentMage)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 23:26 14/05/2003 0100, you wrote: > >With the upcoming 2.0 [lang] release, I have been considering whether the > >[lang] functor subpackage is still valid for release, especially given > >[functor]. I have come to the conclusion that it is not. > > While I can understand what you are doing here. There is something that I > wonder about. > > What happens to the factory methods? The reason I ask is because I > actually wrote about this in upcoming book. I am now finishing this > book. I looked in the new functor package and there are no factory methods > persay. > > Can we get the factory methods back? > > Thanks > > Christian Gross > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
