Github user knusbaum commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/459
@krichter722 Yes, these maps are vestiges of the old clojure code. It would
probably be preferable to do as you suggest, but I'm not sure how much work
there is to do there. IIRC, the config objects are pretty well spread and used
throughout the code, and there's some other support code, tests, validation,
etc. That may have to be significantly changed. I think it's definitely worth
consideration, though. Maybe a dev list email would be a good place to get
opinions.
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