Re: StringBuilder Extension: IsQuotedBy

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:35:39 +0100, Daniel Petersson
<[email protected]> wrote:

> in my first post, I clearly stated that the choice (regex vs
> hand-coded) depended on the develment task, sadly a lot people
> didn't notice this and therefore a lot of post are slightly or
> completely of topic.

No, the reason it went OT for me is that the nonchalant statement "object
creation in .NET is expensive" has been used at least twice to support
design strategies, and subsequently gone unchallenged. And because I find
throwaway generalizations like these harmful, I can't find it within myself
to let them pass.

And as elaboration has shown, there is *nothing* to back up this claim; one
poster has rephrased it as "object creation is expensive just like
everything is expensive" (tautology), another as "object creation is
expensive if you do it in a way that leads to expensive consequences"
(non-sequitur), etc.

I've seen senior developers make strict guidelines forbidding certain things
on tautologies and non-sequiturs like these, so I have first-hand experience
of their dangers.

"Thread-OT but not list-OT" is always OK, right?

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