On 2007-01-08, Jussi Salmela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Cerutti kirjoitti: >> In C one uses the pointer to opaque struct idiom to hide data. >> For example, the standard FILE pointer. > > To Neil Cerutti: If a programmer in C has got a pointer to some > piece of memory, that piece is at the mercy of the programmer. > There's no data hiding at all in this case.
That's somewhat disingenuous. You get just as much data hiding with an opaque data type in C as you get in C++ or Java. -- Neil Cerutti Potluck supper: prayer and medication to follow. --Church Bulletin Blooper -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
