Ouch, that's cold man ;-) On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the dialogue guys, very insightful. Coming from a dynamic > language background for the server side, I don't get that warm and fuzzy > feeling reminiscent of suckling a mother's teet, that others (read java > coders) do from compiler checks. I live in the run-time baby! > Baz > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Point taken. However we do work in teams on many projects and the >> benefits of using the note system far outweigh the downsides (if there are >> any) in my opinion. I can only speak from my personal experience, and in >> that we've never had problems with wrongly casted note bodies. >> >> I guess it's down to personal preference. >> >> Stefan >> >> >> >> On 17 Sep 2008, at 08:33, Ralf Bokelberg wrote: >> >> Yep Stefan >> >> I think type safety is much more important, if you work in teams. I >> never had a type problem, when i worked on my own, since i knew all >> the necessary types. But if you have a team it makes things much >> easier. >> >> Cheers >> Ralf. >> >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL >> PROTECTED]<stefan%40muchos.co.uk>> >> wrote: >> > Valid points, but Baz definitely points to an itch that many have tied >> to >> > scratch before. >> > >> > I use PureMVC primarily now for my projects and the only time I need >> custom >> > events is to talk from my view component to its Mediator. Most of the >> time I >> > do not need custom events at all. From the Mediator on PureMVC uses >> > Notifications (also called notes) which pass around a body that holds >> any >> > type of object. Sure, I need to keep track of what I put into the note >> in >> > order to cast it to the right type when I read it back out but I must >> say >> > this system works very well. In fact I do not recall a single runtime >> error >> > that was due to casting of note bodies. >> > Cheers >> > Stefan >> > >> > >> >> > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
