Experience report

[Brian Goetz]

I'd say let's give this a try and see what we think of the resulting 
transformation code.  It feels like right-sizing the overhead at first look.

On 8/24/2022 9:22 AM, Dan Heidinga wrote:
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> I took another pass through the Attributes that deal with Lists of 
> things and most cases are well handled by existing List helpers.  It's 
> only the CE/CD cases that need data conversion and would therefore 
> benefit from additional methods to create their lists.
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> If we expect to be content with these 4 methods, then adding them as 
> static methods on ClassEntry seems reasonable. It makes them easy to 
> find and avoids a garbage "Helpers/Utils" class. If we expect more of 
> these methods (and I currently don't but that may be lack of 
> imagination), then a garbage class might be better.
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