On Mon, 15 May 2000, Brandon wrote: > > > Gee, isn't it great how much sematic content can be encoded in > > > strings? :-) > > Yeah, but can you imagine having to write the code to parse that... in the > > application you wanted to use it? Oh wait, I have... it was a pain in the > > ass. Thats why I did it once, at the presentation layer. > > You can also do it once in a utility class. It doesn't have to be a layer > as such, you can just write some functions to decode strings into types > and then put them in a library.
But unless you standardize on using that utility class you can still end up with other users. And the way to standardize is to add a layer. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev -- ___ Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
