Re: Barracuda: Patch for IterativeListModel
Richard Kunze <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.java.enhydra.barracuda.general |
|---|---|
| Organization | Tivano Software GmbH |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Friday 06 December 2002 15:02, Jacob Kjome wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > The thing is, the name of the class is Iterative*List*Model. Given the > name, it makes sense that it uses a List. I'd guess that the name "ListModel" comes from the fact that it's used to build a list of things in the *ML output, and not from the input data being constrained to the java.util.List semantics. > That said, maybe the class should have been called something else that > doesn't constrain it semantically? "IterativeModel" perhaps? > I guess we're kind of stuck with the name now. If we > changed that, we'd break lots of applications. So, maybe the change is a > good idea, even if it doesn't match up semantically. > > I'm +1 on the change if others are. Christian, what do you think? +1 from me. The semantics should still be clear, and allowing Collection instead of List doesn't hurt. Regards, Richard -- Richard Kunze [ t]ivano Software, Bahnhofstr. 18, 63263 Neu-Isenburg Tel.: +49 6102 80 99 07 - 0, Fax.: +49 6102 80 99 07 - 1 http://www.tivano.de, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Barracuda mailing list [email protected] http://www.enhydra.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/barracuda FAQ - http://www.jguru.com/faq/Barracuda