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On 4/13/06, Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> wrote: > > [Please skip this paragraph.] > [Yes, I know that you're not contradicting your own argument. I just > don't think that you're not not contradicting your own argument > strongly enough for me to not say that you're contradicting your own > argument. (And I'm not contradicting myself in this sentence.)] > [Just ignore the above.] > Oh, how exceptionally witty you are, Eli! Charming. Not exactly a Will Clinger, but you're getting better. > > > But this is getting boring, [...] > > Right -- so there's this useful bit of functionality that just must be > implemented over and over and over again. If I lower my music for a > second I can actually hear the c.l.l folks laugh. The c.l.l folks? Oh, they are just trying to understand why nobody uses their wonderful language (and they are still not getting it - I invite you to think about it). Perhaps it's a matter with the keyword arguments, who knows? > > > > Configuration-objects could be composed, inherited, modified by > > accessors, whatever. I claim such an interface is cleaner, possibly > > less verbose and likely to be more efficient. > > And so we get to the point where you give me an example that I > explicitly talked about why it doesn't work. No, you were describing optional arguments. That is different from a (Hint: single) optional configuration object. > Hint: the summary was > that while this is possible, I've never seen real code that uses it Well, I *have* seen real code that uses _configuration objects_ (assuming we are talking about the same thing, but that assumpton may be wrong), but perhaps I have just seen more code that was good for me... Anyway, next question? cheers, felix