On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:14 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 October 2012 21:00, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:38 PM, James Carman < > ja...@carmanconsulting.com>wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > I did not do this one as is it seems RFC4180 defines CR+LF as the > record > >> > separator as noted in the Javadoc for > >> > org.apache.commons.csv.CSVFormat.DEFAULT. > >> > > >> > >> That's where the name of this component gets confusing to me. Since > >> it's called "CSV", it would make sense that we follow RFC 4180, which > >> defines the standard for comma-separated value files and thus the > >> default record separator would be CRLF. However, we are allowing > >> users to define whatever format they want using properties of the > >> CSVFormat class (of course, if you use delimiter != ',', then it's not > >> really CSV). So, what's the intent? This is more of a > >> delimited-record format parser/writer component which supports CSV. > >> Thus, it is not really very well-named. > > CSV could stand for Character Separated Variables. >
Ah... very clever. TLA overloading, I love it! Gary > > Although CSV usually means comma-separated, I think it is treated as a > generic name sufficiently often that the it is not likely to be a big > problem. > > The difficulty with all the other names is that they are not at all well > known. > > >> > > > > Why not rename DEFAULT to RFC418? > > I agree that DEFAULT is a poor name, but could not get agreement to > change it previously. > > There is already an RFC4180; DEFAULT is RFC4180 + allow blank lines. > > > Gary > > > > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > > JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 > > Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK > > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
