Jon,
I was simply saying:
Hey, I know I've got a MarkupElement here and it's not of type
ComponentTag . . . then you guys come along and say I can assume it is
of type RawMarkup (even though I can't check whether that is true) and
I'm sitting there wondering "how safe is this assumption really? what
happens if new types are added in the future?".
If you believe it is *always* safe to make this assumption,
feel free to note this in the Javadoc somewhere and explain why that
is. For example: "It is safe to assume that any unknown MarkupElement
is of type RawMarkup because this means the code will ignore unknown
markup tags in the future. We actually want to do this in order to
ensure that old code will continue running when the framework is
extended to add new types".... Does that make sense? It just isn't
explicit really and I feel hesistant to make such an assumption in my
code. I'd feel better if it was clarified in the documentation.
Gili
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:54:32 -0800 (PST), Jonathan Locke wrote:
>cowwoc says:
>
>"The point is, if ComponentTag is public, RawMarkup should be
>too, so we can check which of the two children we get back
>from MarkupStream.get()"
>
>in bug 1092016.
>
>if you're out there cowwoc, can you explain what it is that you want to do
>with a RawMarkup tag if you detect it? we're trying to keep details of
>markup rendering out of the hands of users as much as possible. i think
>it is more likely that you have a problem you're trying to solve that
>would cause us to create a new rendering feature for you. but if you have
>a good reason for needing a RawMarkup tag, we might open this up.
>
>in any case, it ought to be possible to solve your problem. please let us
>know WHY you want to check the markup tag type like this. what problem
>are you trying to solve?
>
>thanks,
>
> jon
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