[Babeldoc-devel] Re: PipelineDocument.toString()

[Bruce M. <br...@mc...>]

Mike,

Good to see you back.  

I completely agree with you here.  Your name looks perfect.

regards,
Bruce.

On Saturday 27 December 2003 01:20 pm, Michael Ansley wrote:
> Hi, Bruce,
>
> I noticed the discussion on the users list regarding the
> PipelineDocument.toString() method.  In the absence of other
> suggestions, I'd like to suggest that:
>
> a) toString() stay as it is, because I think that any toString() method
> should completely describe the object it's called on,
>
> b) we create a new method, say documentToString() or
> getDocumentAsString(), which contains the original toString()
> functionality.
>
> I'm disinclined to think of this as a bug, and as such, I don't see any
> reason for 1.2 to revert to the old behaviour, although others may
> disagree.  However, I would prefer to see 1.3 follow the suggestion
> outlined above.
>
> Thoughts...
>
> Any objections to me creating the new method in 1.3?  Preference for a
> name?
>
>
> MikeA