Hey Ted, no I was referring to the comments of CSV-68, where it was stated that no other CSV library provides validation of the used CSV formats (and hence it can be removed from commons csv entirely).
Benedikt 2012/11/20 Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> > Surely you meant to say no other commons library. > > Builder patterns are relatively common. See guava for instance: > > > http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/base/Splitter.html > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > - it has been argued that using the builder pattern only to make sure > > > CSVFormats are valid is overengineered. No other library has this kind > of > > > validation. > > >
