On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Guido Neitzer wrote:
> On 16.08.2007, at 11:05, Chuck Hill wrote:
>
>> Better sit down. I agree with you. :-) Though not so much for
>> "type is good" but "API is good". Having all this in a dictionary
>> hides the API. The binding validation is a valuable side
>> effect ;-) and this _is_ Java so you might as well benefit from
>> the type system.
>
> Perhaps you think, I go too far - but I'm not doing that. I don't
> use that as an API replacement, I use it only for stuff, that is
> used ONLY in this one component. Like, when I calculate a lot of
> stuff for a "dashboard" page or something I'll might end up with
> lots of Number and String objects I want to show and often I put
> them into the dict. But they are not used anywhere outside and I
> don't go so far to push values from outside into that dictionary
> (like overriding takeValueForKey and valueForKey and putting stuff
> in there or so) ...
I could probably accept this provided they are not used in sub-
classes. My concern is that what you use with caution and reason,
someone else will abuse horribly.
Chuck
--Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific problems. http://www.global-village.net/products/practical_webobjects
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0.0 : Thu Aug 16 2007 - 13:24:35 EDT