Re: TaskList API proposal

"Trond Norbye" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.tasklist.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tim Lebedkov said:
> Users of this API must write something like
> (int) (0.33 * (Suggestion.PRIORITY_MAX - Suggestion.PRIORITY_MIN) +
> Suggestion.PRIORITY_MIN)
> and recompile their files to be compatible with future changes to these
> values.
> Nobody will do this. That's why I think we should write the values of
> constants to JavaDoc or create some more levels (5??, 10???).

I must say I agree with Tor on this issue... It is in my eyes _bad_
programming style to use the internal repesentation of another class.
Imagine how difficult it would be to maintain the source if you use the
constants directly... When the source stops working one will have no idea
what's wrong and one might need to check out the differences in the API
lib to find out the new values....


Regards,

Trond Norbye

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