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Dare Obasanjo wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Bill de hÓra [mailto:bill.dehora@propylon.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 5:39 PM
>>To: Dare Obasanjo
>>Cc: Michael Kay; Elliotte Harold; Neeraj.Bajaj@Sun.COM; Chris
>>Burdess; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>>Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Article on JAXP 1.3 "Fast and Easy XML
>>Processing"
>>
>>
>>>So given the choice of methods that take useless interfaces (since
>>>they have to cast to get anything useful) and APIs with lots of
>>>overloaded methods that support a rich set of data sources,
>>
>>why would
>>
>>>you think the former is better?
>>
>>Because it'll be more elegant to add metadata onto Source
>>objects than continue with parametric polymorphism. It's hard
>>not to conclude a fundamental abstraction is missing when a
>>class has that many overloaded calls.
>
>
> And it's hard to argue that Source is actually a useful abstraction.
Touche :)
cheers
Bill
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