On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 10:16 PM, Sylvain Wallez wrote:
> Hi team, > > Marcus Crafter proposed a while ago a new style of Selector that would > allow to factorize some common computation for all <map:when> cases > instead of starting from scratch a each case as it is today. This is > especially useful when the data that has to be tested is costly to > obtain compared to the time of the actual test (e.g. select on a user > role that is fetched in a database). > > All this is decribed in http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon- > dev&m=101619559107566&w=4 and > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7244 > > Marcus originally called it "ContextualizableSelector", but this seemed > inappropriate since there are already many Context objects around in > Cocoon. So a better name came which was "SwitchStyleSelector" for its > analogy with the switch construct in Java, whereas the current Selector > is more analogous to if/else-if constructs. > > So there are two questions : > > - do you want this new style of selector ? > +1 +1 > - do you have a better name than "SwitchStyleSelector" ? > I personally don't have ;) > How about plain "SwitchSelector" for brevity? Stuart. Public Key - 1024D/88DD65AF 2001-11-23 Stuart Roebuck (Adolos) Key fingerprint = 89D9 E405 F8B1 9B22 0FA2 F2C1 9E57 5AB1 88DD 65AF ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stuart Roebuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Architect Java, XML, MacOS X, XP, etc. ADOLOS <http://www.adolos.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
