On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 9:12 AM Bobby Holley <bobbyhol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think the answer is "it depends". BasePrincipal makes a lot of sense for > principals, because it allows for a lot of sharing among the subclasses, of > which there are only four. URIs are more complicated, and probably deserve > a dedicated conversation. > > So I think that a shared C++ superclass is a useful and ergonomic pattern. > That's not quite the same as "we should switch to this pattern everywhere", > because the tradeoffs vary. > Got it, that's what I was expecting, just wanted to make sure. > And we need to weigh the benefit of any cleanup-related engineering work > against other priorities. > This wasn't a proposal for anyone to work on anything as a dedicated project, just making sure that some of the patterns I was seeing warranted some tracking for cleanup at some point. I'm bouncing around a lot of the code base right now and can at least file for later work. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
