There are two issues here: (1) where is the best place for functor things to live in and (2) some folks are allergic ;-) to some projects depending on each other.
Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 15:24 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [collections] Functors: why in commons.collections and not > commons.lang? > > I understand that Functor interfaces (Factory, Predicate, Closure, > Transformer) are used by classes in the collections library, and need > to be accessible by that library. > > However, I believe these interfaces are universally useful in cases > having nothing to do with collections. > > It's too bad they're not in java.lang. I wonder if they could have > been > placed in commons.lang instead of commons.collections. I guess that > would have required that commons.lang *always* be present when > commons.collections was used, and that is undesirable. Is this how > the decison was made to include them in commons.collections? > > - Keith Bennett > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now > http://companion.yahoo.com/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
