Re: Configuration ease-of-use fix

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 10:59:07 EDT

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    >
    > After David Taylor's mail about his setup problems I'd like to disable
    > (deprecate) public access to the internal ResourceLocator and have the
    > Configuration subclass act strictly as a facade, with individual
    > capabilities. Exposing the internal behaviour of such a 'fat' utility
    > object always kind of bugged me and Dave's attempts show that when
    > there's a bunch of public methods, people will call them, trying to
    > 'fix' things. A good API should prevent that, IMHO.
    >
    > Holger

    +1 for deprecating the public accessor, as long as the static ivar stays
    "protected"

    Andrus



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