On Wednesday 21 February 2001 12:51, Juergen Vigna wrote:
> 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
They could be grouped together into a namespace though to make clear that
this is the intention. This could be done, even though we aren't currently
using namespaces...
