Services for 3.9

Chris Muller afunkyobject at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 25 00:53:03 UTC 2005


> Ok, cool. BTW, if you're working on this, I have some suggestions:
> 1. There are some names that are too general, and I feel would be better 
> made more specific. Requestors - if they are specialized for use with 
> services, they shouldn't take up the general name. Another example is 
> #findCategories as an extension to String - why shouldn't it find class 
> categories? better to use a more explicit name such as the ungainly, but 
> specific findServiceCategories. Any extension to commonly used classes 
> should be especially careful about these things. And better to fix these 
> things now, because once it is in the image, it will become very widely 
> used protocol and become very hard to change.

I just wanted to say, I wholly agree with this.




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