Re: Getters without the "get" part
Re: Getters without the "get" part
- Subject: Re: Getters without the "get" part
- From: Lachlan Deck <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:30:17 +1100
On 01/04/2009, at 7:23 AM, Sacha Michel Mallais wrote:
On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
Heh - and while we're at it, let's replace NSArray with
ArrayList, NSDictionary with HashMap and NSSet with .... well,
some of those gazillion java collection classes....
This already should have happened. Once you get a firm grasp of
the Java Collections API, it's design, intention and power,
NSArray and it's company will make you want to puke. I actually
thought that WO would move in this direction by first making
NSArray implement List, and do all the similar stuff, then
depreciate Foundation collections, and the finally get rid of
them. Well, maybe that still is the intention, but it sure is
slow.
Agreed. Foundation collections are an embarrassing relic.
Unfortunately, the standard Java collection classes (JCC) gloss
over an important aspect of collection classes: mutability vs.
immutability. EOF requires the latter for all attributes, so
switching to JCC in EOF would be dangerous, and, IMHO, foolish.
AFAIK, the only benefit to using standard JCC is to be more
"standard" Java... something I'd like but am willing live without
in order to gain the benefit of EOF.
performance ... under heavy load, the java collections classes in
specific parts of WO/EOF perform much better. one could make the
case that NSDict/MutableDict should instead extend HashMap,
though. Unfortunately to play nicely with other API's, they still
impl Map/List, which means that even now we lose our immutable
API's. Personally, I still use the NS API's even though Map/List
is available explicitly so I get proper immutability compile time
checks.
Fair enough: being able to choose the implementation is a Good
Thing. I guess I subscribe to the "make it right, then make it
good, then make it fast" philosophy, and in that respect, the
standard JCC -- and some of the JDK as a whole -- give me butt rash.
Yeah and the only real changes needed for now are that WORepetition
and co allow for standard collections.
with regards,
--
Lachlan Deck
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