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.

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