Or we could have a factory function that takes a string hint and
returns a lightweight object based on the hint. This might actually
open the door to making the build mode useful, as you could delegate
build-mode specific actions to the build mode object. It would also
make the system extensible because you could provide a sub-class of
any existing build mode object and the factory function would have to
return that instead, even though you had passed in the same hint.
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On May 19, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Earl Miles wrote:
Chris Johnson wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something here, but it's just as possible to
accidentally re-use a string constant as a numeric constant. How
does
using a string help things at all? Either the developer reads and
enumerates a list of all existing uses and avoids collision -- or
does
not -- regardless of whether they are integers, strings, or ice cream
flavors.
Please educate me!
Strings have meaning. Ints do not. Therefore if there is a collision
it is at least a collision over meaning.
