I would be ok with making the parser and format ctors public. What else? I agree that we should not force force folks into an API pattern but here it's not a big API at least.
Gary On Apr 8, 2013, at 17:02, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: > Le 08/04/2013 22:39, Gary Gregory a écrit : > >> But that's the price for immutability for some of these objects. > > Not sure, we already achieved immutability last year without paying this > price: > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/csv/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/CSVFormat.java?p=1305548 > > This design was sacrified for the sake of implementing a "by the book" > builder pattern that brings no real benefit in term of usability. It's > just a useless layer of complexity. > > > Emmanuel Bourg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
