Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] XML on_content and others

[Berend de B. <be...@po...>]

"Franck Arnaud" <fr...@ne...> writes:

> > In callback cases the overhead of passing parameters is perhaps less
> > than using attributes and just calling plain routines.
> 
> Shouldn't really be a major concern either way.

Yes, I'm really not sure. But I also like a less cluttered class,
because if you override things you have to take a lot of parameters
with you. It was just an idea.

But if you switch through several layers, it might pay off, especially
if we can save the state in a special class that just every other
class has a reference too: no copying in this case, no parameter
passing either. And the ability to have the attributes available in
on_content and on_end calls (for the same tag).


> > perhaps, make it possible to change/tweak state more easily than
> > adding an additional parameter, which requires all people to change
> > their source.
> 
> Good argument, but it's at the cost of weaker static type 
> checking (acceptable to me, but we're losing something).

True. But I hope the benefits outweigh the costs.

-- 
Groetjes,

Berend. (-: