Torsten Curdt wrote:
>
> 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
Yeah, same here. +1 for this.
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able to give birth to a dancing star.
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