Re: PATCH: Bug 186

On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 11:39  PM, Charles Goodwin wrote:

>> So it becomes an exception. Sorry, I don't like exceptions, especially
>> when they're unnecessary.
>
> It's necessary.
>
> How else can you provide a reasonable syntax that accomplishes the 
> following
> shape with the funcionality of a complex widget like scrollpane:

Um, what's wrong with:

$scrollpane.north = myBoxNorth;
$scrollpane.south = myBoxSouth;

?

Yes, it's a box reassignment. But it's done *actively* by the 
developer. Hell, myBoxNorth = xwt.newBox(). There's no reassignment 
there.

The other model forces box reassignment and  opens up debug issues. It 
becomes the single exception from all the other ones.

I don't see what the problem is. The approaches are almost exactly the 
same, only one breaks the overlying rule, the other doesn't.

d


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