Thoughts on agile software development
Just in time for Easter time there is a new FreshMarker release available. There are some more enhancements to the built-ins through the addition of an easy lambda support.
To implement a new built-in for sequences, lambdas were added as a new language component of the FreshMarker Expression Language. The lambda expression made it much easier to map the semantics of the new count built-in in an easily readable syntax. Now that lambda expressions are available, what else can they be used for and what still needs to be implemented?
In the first article on the Select Operator, the implementation was provisionally terminated with a few weaknesses. In this article, two of the weaknesses are eliminated.
Nachdem wir schon zwei Ansätze für einen Fluent Builder angeschaut haben, wollen wir uns diesmal den Einsatz einer Chain in einem Builder anschauen.
Häufig möchte man einen Builder wiederverwenden, statt ihn jedes Mal für eine Instanz neu zu erzeugen, zu konfigurieren und dann wegzuwerfen.