Hi Alex, > IMO, something like an "R" class should not be put into the compiler or the > IDE. The compiler should be as framework agnostic as possible. It is > probably possible to create a set of classes that do what R does.
maybe I misuderstand you here, but to get compile time code hinting in an IDE and compile time checking for resource accesses, I wonder how something like R should be generated then if not by the compiler? > How many of you use non-String resources? A String-only resource system can > be so much better optimized than what we have now. I would love to phase > out the current ResourceManager subsystem and replace it with something much > smaller and faster. only Strings. I always found it strange to have Embeds and ClassReferences in .properties files. Dirk.