On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 03:45, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > Can somebody tell me why we have to: > > 1) create three strings > 2) call two methods > 3) create an exception object > 4) throw the exception > 5) and then throw everything away. > > in order to resort to the default value?
Its legacy inherited from previous authors ;) I fixed this up in CVS but similar ineficiancies are present with many of the getAttribute*() methods. It would be good if a patch was supplied to rectify this ;) -- Cheers, Pete --------------------------------------------------- Murphy's law - "Anything that can go wrong, will." (Actually, this is Finagle's law, which in itself shows that Finagle was right.) --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
