On 6/4/2013 12:41 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
I think this is over-engineering. It's unlikely that an application will need to support multiple compression algorithms in the same piece of code, and even if it did, it would be trivial to implement this on top of the simple interface that Walter is using.
Yup. My experience with abstractions that have no use cases is all the wrong things get abstracted. And by my experience, I include every one I've seen other people write as well as my own.
My favorite is windows.h. It was originally written for 16 bit Windows, and had all kinds of abstractions to make it portable for a future 32 bit Windows. Unfortunately, apparently nobody working on windows.h had any experience with 32 bit code, and the abstractions turned out to be all wrong.
