On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:23:10AM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Greg Ewing wrote:
> > "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com>:
> >
> > > BTW, wouldn't it suffice to add these methods to buffer objects ?
> > > Then you could write: buffer(ob).find('.').
> >
> > Aren't buffer objects as they're currently implemented
> > inherently dangerous?
>
> Why should they be ?
The buffer object caches the pointer from getreadbuffer and friends. If the
target object changes that pointer (internally), then the buffer object's
value is stale.
But that is a bug fix; it is independent of the discussion at hand.
Cheers,
-g
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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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