RE: [FormProc-developer] Re: Why FormProc? Was RE: [ANN] JPublish 0.8 Released

[Brad C. <bc...@vi...>]

At 9:15 PM -0500 2/16/02, Anthony Eden wrote:
>>  So I get to write higher level classes like this:
>>  	new Address(Name n, Street s, City c, Zipcode z, State s);
>>  not like this:
>>  	new Address(String n, String s, String c, ...
>
>Once again, an interesting approach, but doing this:
>
>new Address(String name, String street, String city, String zipCode,
>String state) is just as clear.

Except that if you get the order wrong, you get an compile time error 
with the first, a debugging exercise with the latter.

  Another possible argument is that the
>first method may result in class overload.  Then again, maybe not. :-)

Don't follow that. What's class overload? Never a hint of a problem 
with the mybank system at least, which is HUGE.
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