+1 to the name. Questions:
which package? what about the Digester code? is this for 2.1? Hen On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Gary Gregory wrote: > So, should we rename Interpolation to MappedMessageFormat? I am +1. > > Gary > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 18:20 > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > > Subject: Re: [lang] Boundaries of Lang RE: [lang] Tokenizer > > > > From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Interpolator is something I'm never too sure of in Lang (yes I know, > > I've > > > added it to Lang twice now). I use it or a similar class a lot, but > it's > > > very easy to implement in terms of StringUtils.replace; it can be > > > genericised all the way to Commons-EL and the word interpolate is > not > > > quite what it means in scripting languages (there's no access to the > > real > > > variable namespaces, just a pretend namespace in a Map). > > > > > > With DurationFormat, I've begun to think of Lang a little as an > entry > > > point into other libraries, along with being a java.lang set of > > utilities. > > > > > > So I think we're doing okay in terms of our boundaries, but I think > > > Interpolation is over the boundary. I'm +1 to declaring it a step > too > > far > > > and removing it for 2.1 (and changing the bugzilla entry to > WONTFIX). > > > > I disagree. The fact that it has been asked for before, has > reoccurred, > > and > > that I use it (!) suggests that it is a useful utility class. [lang] > > should > > aim to include those classes that keep on being needed as low level > > utilities and we believe Java would benefit from. A > MappedMessageFormat is > > a > > good case, and is no more or less worthy than other classes in [lang]. > > > > Viewed in terms of the 'leads on to other libraries' model: > > - math subpackage --> [math] > > - time subpackage --> JodaTime > > - CharSetUtils/Interpolation --> [oro]/[regexp] > > > > Stephen > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
