At 09:34 29.01.2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks for the ideas.
>
>So are you saying that having a dollar sign will screw up the hierarchy? I
>just assumed that "com.Outer" would be a parent of "com.Outer$Inner". If
>not, how about an enhancement that allows the "$" symbol to be interpreted
>as a separator as well? (Sorry, normally I would have just tested this, but
>I'm short on time this week.)
Correct. Only the dots in a name are meaningful in hierarchy parsing.
Dollars have no special meaning.
>Although looking up the category dynamically is slower, I don't think it's
>slow enough to warrant changing how I name the category and name its
>variable (Again, if you're constructing the inner classes millions of times,
>then that may be a concern.)
Correct. To convince yourself, you might wish to write a small test app
that measures the speed of calling
Category.getInstance("....");
It should be in the order of a few micro seconds. Regards, Ceki
----
Ceki Gülcü - Independent IT Consultant
av. de Rumine 5 Tel: ++41 21 351 23 15
CH-1005 Lausanne e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
Switzerland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
