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- > Isn't this precisely what "Categories" are for?
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- 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.
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- 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...).
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- Later,
- -don
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