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  3. April 2002

RE: Space pointers

John Taylor wrote:

> In a nutshell.. yup. The core utilities such as swMemExpand() and
> swMemShrink() are used to support more complex structures. There's nothing
> special about what I'm doing; these are just convenience wrappers that
> change the buffer size, then shift the data accordingly.

Why use memory manipulation alone for complex structures, why not combine it
with (user) indexes? Wouldn't that make them easier to understand and maintain?

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