Re: *Parameterizable*

Mircea Toma wrote:
> 
> In a different package. Parameters are what Properties should have been, 
> a clean way to represent name-value pairs.

but it's so generic that is could go anywhere :-)

> Yes, but not the DNA API.

where would you propose to put it?

> I don't understand the question. I do need the Parameters interface plus 
>  a default implementation because it's so handy to work with, when 
> having name-value pairs type configuration. The package should have a 
> utility that would do:
> 
> class ParametersUtil {
>     Parameters fromConfiguration(Configuration configuration);
>     Parameters fromProperties(Properties properties);
>     Parameters fromMap(Map map);
>     Properties toProperties(Parameters parameters);
>     Map toMap(Parameters parameters);
> }

yep - gotcha ;-)
I'm not disagreeing, just a question of where to put Parameters.