Hi Jon!
Jon Stevens wrote:
> > we use
> > standard interfaces when they exist, otherwise we define one.
>
> What is standard?
>
> <http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/ymtd/ymtd-implementation.html>
A 'standard' should be one of these, according to the American Heritage
Dictionary:
1.Serving as or conforming to a standard of measurement or value.
2.Widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence: a
standard reference work.
3.Acceptable but of less than top quality: a standard grade of beef.
4.Normal, familiar, or usual: the standard excuse.
5.Commonly used or supplied: standard car equipment.
Definitely it's not 1, I'd like it to be 2 but I doubt it, and 3 is not
what I wanted to say, although it's what you seem to think about some of
them :)
4 would be close, and 5 is right about it: commonly used or supplied. If
you're planning to use XML, you have better use SAX or DOM, since about
every package provides both interfaces -- we're not Microsoft, so we
cannot define our own.
Notice that this definition does not specify where the standard thing
comes from: a consensus from a broad userbase, an authority, a powerful
corporation, or whatever -- it's just commonly used or supplied.
Un saludo,
Alex.
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