Re: Re: New thread - Template base class design

On Jun 10, 2004, at 10:55 PM, Alan Knowles wrote:

I did consider the factory method + base class very early on, but it raises the ugly head of just delivering the same problem we have at present (lots of similar template engines, with little recycling or working together)

Yeah, not sure of it myself, but Greg's idea on the create() method sure looked neat, I had to try it out. I fear that somehow, no matter what we do, there's going to be some sort of splitting-up as some engines concentrate on some ideas and others on others -- but at least there will be some level of consistency in the implementations. Not certain that there's One Right Way to do everything for everyone all the time. :-(

I'll have to comment more tonight - as I've got to get back and finish some paid work :)

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