on 7/13/01 2:51 AM, "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why is adding to the Context interface bad? Because then every
> implementation of Context then has to support those methods. It takes
> the interface from 5 methods to 13 methods, with no real functional
> addition other than you can avoid typing 'new <CLASS>( arg )' when you
> want to convert a primitive to an Object.
>
> It's a nice convenience, but is that worth it?
>
> geir
Convenience for the end user and developer is a good thing.
My guess is that few people implement their own Context object's.
-jon
