Improved struct module
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at compaq.com
Fri Oct 15 09:38:25 EDT 1999
Tim Peters wrote:
>
> a buffer object contains a pointer to a base object and a
> separate pointer to a chunk of untyped memory. If the base object happens
> to stop using that memory, there's no way for the buffer object to know
> that.
That sounds like a description of one way to mis-implement the
buffer interface of an object, rather than a flaw in the buffer
interface concept itself.
Are there any existing objects which have this problem? If so,
they should be fixed.
Greg
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