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Re: Resource confusion

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From	Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
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Subject	Re: Resource confusion
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Novice wrote:
> In all honesty, I have never seriously looked at classloaders and have no
> real idea why there are all various different ones and when I should be
> trying to use one programmatically. I basically had troubles reading a
> file from my file system some time ago, googled, and found a post with an
> example indicating that toClass().toResource() was a good idea. (A
> specific mention of classLoader may have been in there too.) I never
> really understood the issue properly but that code got me out of trouble
> for the original situation and I've imitated it several times without
> really understanding it. Learning more about these classloaders is on my
> To Do list; maybe I need to move it up the list ;-)

The term for this style of programming is "cargo cult programming".

Programming by superstition is not a winning strategy.

Everything in programming is explicable. There is an answer. Be confident of 
that. So never, ever, ever accept "I never really understood the issue 
properly", much less rely on code you don't understand to get you out of 
trouble. At least not for very long.

"I've imitated it several times without really understanding it" is criminal. 
Criminal. That's not how a programmer works.

> Thanks again Arved! I think I'm out of trouble now....

Not yet.

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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Thread

Resource confusion Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-01-28 17:47 +0000
  Re: Resource confusion Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-28 15:44 -0400
    Re: Resource confusion Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-28 13:43 -0800
    Re: Resource confusion Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-01-29 05:40 +0000
      Re: Resource confusion Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-28 22:43 -0800
      Re: Resource confusion Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-29 13:24 -0400
  Re: Resource confusion Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-30 13:33 -0800
    Re: Resource confusion Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-01-31 02:45 +0000
      Re: Resource confusion Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-31 06:32 -0400
        Re: Resource confusion Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-01-31 20:43 +0000
          Re: Resource confusion Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-31 18:08 -0400
            Re: Resource confusion Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-01-31 23:01 +0000

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