On 4 May 2011 13:47, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> At some point Hen mentioned the idea of a PairFormat class. I don't
> think this is a bad idea, but the parsing capabilities of such a beast
> would be minimal to nonexistent, and it still doesn't seem that it
> would be configurable in a simple way without doing the equivalent of
> String.format("", left, right). At this point I am still not sure
> what is the right mechanism for providing custom string
> representations of Pair in the simplest and most elegant possible way.
> Have any ideas?
Not really.
toString(format) does the job of custom formatting pretty well.
Anything else is a wrapper around that which feels pretty unecessary.
Thus, I'd like to make Pair no longer implement Formattable (BTW, I
don't think anything in the JDK implements Formattable, so its a weird
interface).
Stephen
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