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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:43:18 +1100
Subject: Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional)
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Michael Herrmann
<michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> wrote:
> What do you think of designs #3 and #4?
>
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Ehh, I referred to these as options 2 and 4. Got lost in the indexing
somewhere. These are the same two I meant, though - these are the
options I think are the most plausible.

(Hindsight being 20/20, it'd have been awesome if the original
snippets had had identifiers next to them. Oh well, no matter.)

ChrisA