on 7/11/01 8:44 PM, "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I dunno ... I run across this a lot, and quite frankly it doesn't
> bother me to just do a new <FOO>.
>
> The problem that I see is that this makes the API for VelocityContext
> different than that of Context - so if you get into the [bad] habit of
> using the helper methods instead of just using something like
>
> context.put( "foo", new Integer(2));
>
> then when you move that code into a more generic situation where you are
> passed a Context rather than a VelocityContext, all will break. (Don't
> even suggest this for the Context interface...:)
>
> geir
More detail needed:
Why exactly is it bad?
-jon
