On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 11:42, Gary Gregory wrote:
> > Since Interpolation is so close in intent to MessageFormat, I seems less
> > confusing to Java (as opposed to Perl) people to use a
> > MessageFormat-like name. For example MappedMessageFormat is not bad.
> > [1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/text/MessageFormat.html
From: "Simon Kitching" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I just wanted to note that commons-digester has an implementation of
> this sort of thing in o.a.c.digester.substitution.MultiVariableExpander
>
> It has the additional feature that multiple maps can be used; eg
> "A ${var} and #{another} and an env{PATH} variable too."
>
> Variables of form ${...} are looked up in an associated map, which
> is different from the map for #{...} variables, which is different
> again from env{...} variables, etc. The user can define any sequence of
> chars as a "marker" string, and then specifies a map associated with
> that marker string. When a marker string is found preceding a brace pair
> "{varname}" the associated map is used.
+1. Both of these are excellent ideas, and would make the [lang] version
really usable.
Potentially, we could use the digester version to start from. (In new
commons style, there would be copy-paste with reference to original, not
dependency)
Stephen
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