Re: [API] Ideas

2019-11-22 Thread ajs6f
> On Nov 22, 2019, at 3:37 AM, Dave Reynolds wrote > I suspect the underlying point is that the second form of getProperty is > badly named and in retrospect perhaps could have been called makeProperty. Worse; here is the Javadoc for that getProperty: > Return a Property instance with the

Re: [API] Ideas

2019-11-22 Thread Andy Seaborne
On 21/11/2019 18:30, ajs6f wrote: Some off-the-cuff ideas… I'd like to catch up to Java. :grin: Here are three examples (very much off the top of my head, so there may some obvious reasons that we wouldn't want to do these) to give the flavor of what I mean, assuming we are talking about a

Re: [API] Ideas

2019-11-22 Thread Dave Reynolds
On 21/11/2019 18:30, ajs6f wrote: I would like to look at the fairly large number of methods on classes like Resource and Model and see if we can corral and regularize them a bit. I'm not against functionality, of course, but we've built up those APIs via the "coral reef" model (accumulation)