Re: [WebMacro-user] Formatting a date

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Hi!

| My gut feel would be to agree with Endre, ..

Thanks - it's actually nice to hear that someone thinks that not 
everything I say is 100% BS!

| 
| I have every confidence that these plugable tools will not slow me or webmacro 
| down if I don't use them,

.. but who's gonna tell you which tools have which strange side-effects? 
Maybe javadocs, but who reads _all_ classes' javadocs when you begin using 
a new library? Maybe other docs, but again ..
  "Here's a date tool! Excellent! I'll use that!". Whoops, you've got 
yourself a new bunch of potentially contended synchs for every single page 
rendering, and a new _VM-static_ cache.

That's the reason for my whining about "linear code" and "clear pathways" 
and all that stuff.

"Magic caches" (and with them, lots of synchs) don't fit with that 
paradigm.

| but I cannot understand why anyone would use them. 

Well - but when they're there, people will use them, and will end up with 
bad behaviour.

PS: I actually put another "date tool" within the context, that has a set 
of predefined patterns, and is tied to the system's "user object" (since 
he may choose his own Locale). Thus no extra synchs, but still 
user-controlled (user as in me-the-developer) caching.

Regards,
Endre.