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From: yackd@alaska.et.byu.edu (Don Yacktman)
Subject: Re: MiscString - Categories?
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> Isn't this precisely what "Categories" are for?
This is kind of what I'm leaning toward right now. There's no
doubt in my mind that the String class suffers from creeping
featuritis, but you'll also notice that for all the methods
I've added over time, I have never added instance vars. That
means that most, if not all, of the methods would be just
fine in categories. How should we break it down, though? If
you make it too tiny, it's a pain to include all those files,
but if it's too granular, then you end up with a lot of extra
code... So some sort of compromise needs to be discovered.
With everything else, I haven't had much time to give this
thought, even though I'm well aware of the problem, as Carl
pointed out in his message (which absolves me of repeating my
discussion with him, since he already did...).
Later,
-don