Re: Behaviour of getters wrt dup/ref

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 12:12:11PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > 
> > The right interface for this type of functions have been
> > already invented: that of glibc's getline.  It can allocate
> > new buffers, it can reuse existing buffers resizing them if
> > necessary -- and it can be even used with GStrings [if they
> > use the same memory allocator] although that's a bit dirty.
> 
> Well, that's exactly what happens if you make the API take GString.

I reacted to the remark that many people do not like having
to pass a GString (perhaps understandably).  The `decomposed
GString' interface of getline() is then the next reasonable
candidate.

Yeti

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