On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, 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 ;) ....the statement is usually referred to as "switch-case" that would lead to "SwitchCaseSelector" but I guess I would (also) prefer a plain SwitchSelector... +1 for SwitchSelector -- Torsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
