Re: [collections][lang] Predicate etc impls, was Re: commons-collections: New code contribution.

2002-12-08 Thread Stephen Colebourne
s. > > Thanks, > > Tom > > > -Original Message- > From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:19 PM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [collections][lang] Predicate etc impls, was Re: > commons

Re: [collections][lang] Predicate etc impls, was Re: commons-collections: New code contribution.

2002-12-05 Thread Stephen Colebourne
From: "Tom Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks for the note. Functors seems to contain many of the things that I've > also created. > I'll look more closely at this, factor out the overlap. May I send you a zip > file with the > remaining classes? Of course, please submit ideas/patches to the list.

RE: [general] lang scope? (was Re: [collections][lang] Predicate etc impls, was Re: commons-collections: New code contribution.)

2002-12-05 Thread Tom Drake
dicate etc impls, was Re: commons-collections: New code contribution.) On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The plan is to make [collections] depend on [lang] and deprecate the > Predicate etc. interfaces in [collections]. At the risk of becoming increasingly unpopular with the

[general] lang scope? (was Re: [collections][lang] Predicate etcimpls, was Re: commons-collections: New code contribution.)

2002-12-05 Thread Rodney Waldhoff
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The plan is to make [collections] depend on [lang] and deprecate the > Predicate etc. interfaces in [collections]. At the risk of becoming increasingly unpopular with the lang folks, for reasons similiar to those I enumerated in [1] (and others), I'm

Re: [collections][lang] Predicate etc impls, was Re: commons-collections: New code contribution.

2002-12-05 Thread Tom Drake
r 05, 2002 11:47 AM Subject: [collections][lang] Predicate etc impls, was Re: commons-collections: New code contribution. > [please note the square brackets in the title ;-)] > > This has been a hot topic before in commons. The current position is that there is a large body of code such a

[collections][lang] Predicate etc impls, was Re: commons-collections: New code contribution.

2002-12-05 Thread scolebourne
[please note the square brackets in the title ;-)] This has been a hot topic before in commons. The current position is that there is a large body of code such as what you suggest already coded. It resides in [lang]s functor package (not released yet). However, the classes use a different Predic

commons-collections: New code contribution.

2002-12-05 Thread Tom Drake
I'm new to this list, but have worked with the commons-collections package for quite a while. I recently came off a project that implemented a simple but powerful rules engine based on three interfaces that were essentially identical to the Predicate, Closure, and Transformer interfaces. I've buil