On 21-Feb-2001 Edwin Leuven wrote:

> Haven't started yet but looking at the code a bit, bufferview_funcs.C in 
> particular. I was wondering wondering why these are not member functions of 
> the appropriate class. The character stuff seems to affect quite a bit of 
> code...

They are not part of the class because they don't need anything of the
class. So to hold classes small (which are used over and over) it is better
to not put such functions into the class (that's as much as I understood
of what Lars told us ;)

      Jürgen

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