[geos-devel] Issue with returning Coordinate * rather than value

[Martin Davis]

Yep, that's what I meant.  Ok, I guess I can live with that... 

On a philosophical note, I always prefer solutions that help save programmers from shooting themselves in the foot... seems to me that most of the history of the development of programming languages is concerned with doing exactly that, and it's nice to learn from that trend.  But timelines are short - next release, I guess.  The nasty thing is that once this horse is out of the door, it's disappeared around the bend never to be seen again...

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Ramsey [mailto:pramsey at refractions.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:58 PM
> To: geos-devel at geos.refractions.net
> Subject: Re: [geos-devel] Issue with returning Coordinate * 
> rather than
> value
> 
> 
> Martin Davis wrote:
> 
>  > What do people think - is security more important than performance?
> 
> Well, by "security" you seem to mean "protecting people from doing 
> stupid things to themselves" by messing with underlying structures. I 
> think we publish an API and we tell them the dangers of messing with 
> underlying structures, and we have done due diligence then...
> 
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