On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Waldhoff, Rodney wrote:
> I'm not that familiar with StringUtils, but from a quick glance I see only:
>
> StringUtils.soundex(String)
> StringUtils.metaphone(String)
> StringUtils.isMetaphoneEqual(String,String)
>
> which seem to be in the wrong place anyway.
>
> This is part of the problem with a monolithic "util" package--it's too easy
> to bleed functionality, responsiblity and interdependencies between the
> classes. Having distinct components would force us to put more
> consideration into the partitioning.
>
> If we applied the single responsiblity principle I think we'd see a much
> different organization of commons-util, at both the package and class level.
>
Yep. I'm in agreement with these being removed from StringUtils and
Metaphone/Soundex both going into codec (if codec committers agree). How
would SoundexComparator fit into this? Or should I just remopve it as an
unlikely to be useful/too easy to code yourself component? As I only added
it last night, I'm pretty sure no one would care :)
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