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- From: david@ods.com (David Engel)
- Subject: Re: jump tables and X11 libs
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.190746.23825@ods.com>
- Organization: Optical Data Systems, Inc.
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- References: <1992Aug31.035920.26803@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:07:46 GMT
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- Peter MacDonald (pmacdona@tadpole.bcsc.gov.bc.ca) wrote:
- : Now Interviews, that is a different story. It changes a lot. So
- : it should probably use jump tables. But as I understand it, jump
- : tables handle everything automatically, except global data (normally
- : a no-no in s/w engineerring and libs anyways, but like every rule,
- : broken with aplomb).
-
- I haven't looked at Interviews in quite a while, but since it's written
- in C++, which encourages data hiding, I would be very disappointed to
- find the same level of global data as found in some of the other X libs.
-
- : Belatedly, at this point, I acknowledge the fine work of David Engel
- : in developing the jump tables. If I am off base in the above please
- : feel free to flame me.
-
- Not at all, you are right on target. BTW, several people, including
- H.J., Linus, Eric Youngdale and at least a couple others whose names
- I've unfortunately forgotten, contributed valuable ideas used in
- developing the jump tables. All I had to do was implement them.
-
- David
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