2003-09-18T16:35:38 Bennett Todd: > On a separate topic, I've been chatting with someone else, and he > pointed out that a somewhat different abstraction could be more > robust; rather than having an open, visible buffer data structure > into which code can directly write, if code is obliged to go through > accessor routines you can have just one place where all the > bounds-checking is implemented, rather than having to get it right > every place that writes into a buffer.
The someone, by the way, was Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. -Bennett
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