Subject: Re: The Trouble with Tables
Newsgroups: gmane.text.docutils.user
Date: 2005-04-06 13:05:11 GMT (3 years, 5 weeks, 1 day and 37 minutes ago)
David Goodger wrote:
> Felix Wiemann wrote:
>
>> I think the different table directives ("table", "list-table",
>> "csv-table") basically call for unification into a single "table"
>> directive.
>
> +1 on unifying the *implementations* (and documentation). See the
> implementation of admonitions for an example.
>
> -1 on unifying the directives themselves. I'd much rather write
>
> .. list-table::
>
> than
>
> .. table::
> :format: list
That's true. +1.
> Think polymorphism!
Yup. Apropos, the directive code should probably be refactored towards
classes, using what Kent Beck calls "Method Objects":
Instead of passing long parameter lists, the attributes are set through
the constructor, and the actual code is in a "run()" method.
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