-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > You gain a lot of flexibility by associating them with a subtype instead > of the general "int" type. There's important information conveyed by the > fact that CreationInfo is defined at "Date Time" instead of "int/int/int > int:int:int";
Sure, but you make the code indescribably complex, and make people itchy to add new types in the future. > Using this construct we could even do comparisons across different types > easily. A message could define a new type based on known types > dynamically with each message. As you could do with int representations. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE5IF82pXyM95IyRhURApaCAKC60XV/wvpzjaftIhQ3BavluILYvACfawgW Qa7GJZHakuZS5K7fFHGTwzE= =T//A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
