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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 23:01:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Henri Yandell <bayard@generationjava.com>
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: RE: [lang] Boundaries of Lang  RE: [lang] Tokenizer
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+1 to the name.

Questions:

which package?
what about the Digester code?
is this for 2.1?

Hen

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Gary Gregory wrote:

> So, should we rename Interpolation to MappedMessageFormat? I am +1.
>
> Gary
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:scolebourne@btopenworld.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 18:20
> > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
> > Subject: Re: [lang] Boundaries of Lang RE: [lang] Tokenizer
> >
> > From: "Henri Yandell" <bayard@generationjava.com>
> > > Interpolator is something I'm never too sure of in Lang (yes I know,
> > I've
> > > added it to Lang twice now). I use it or a similar class a lot, but
> it's
> > > very easy to implement in terms of StringUtils.replace; it can be
> > > genericised all the way to Commons-EL and the word interpolate is
> not
> > > quite what it means in scripting languages (there's no access to the
> > real
> > > variable namespaces, just a pretend namespace in a Map).
> > >
> > > With DurationFormat, I've begun to think of Lang a little as an
> entry
> > > point into other libraries, along with being a java.lang set of
> > utilities.
> > >
> > > So I think we're doing okay in terms of our boundaries, but I think
> > > Interpolation is over the boundary. I'm +1 to declaring it a step
> too
> > far
> > > and removing it for 2.1 (and changing the bugzilla entry to
> WONTFIX).
> >
> > I disagree. The fact that it has been asked for before, has
> reoccurred,
> > and
> > that I use it (!) suggests that it is a useful utility class. [lang]
> > should
> > aim to include those classes that keep on being needed as low level
> > utilities and we believe Java would benefit from. A
> MappedMessageFormat is
> > a
> > good case, and is no more or less worthy than other classes in [lang].
> >
> > Viewed in terms of the 'leads on to other libraries' model:
> > - math subpackage --> [math]
> > - time subpackage --> JodaTime
> > - CharSetUtils/Interpolation --> [oro]/[regexp]
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> >
> >
> >
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