Parser2 considered harmful

Miles Sabin msabin at cromwellmedia.co.uk
Tue May 18 13:04:48 BST 1999


David Megginson wrote,
> That's the main reason for the shift to 
> get/setFeature/Property -- while it screws around with 
> type safety a little, it should eliminate (most) of 
> the need for subclassing Parser2 any further.

Yes, but these new methods are a natural extension of
the *core* functionality of the Parser interface. As 
such I'm with John Cowan that they should be merged into
Parser.

Cheers,


Miles

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