Re: design question

[John Darrington]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:55:15PM +0000, Jason Stover wrote:
     
     I was going to use method 1, but I started wondering if anyone should
     ever use method 2, or something like it? The casefile is discarded
     after the cases are read (according to a comment in casefile.c). 

I think that comment is a bit misleading. 

     Does
     'discarded' mean the data are no longer accessbile, ever ever
     ever?

Only if the the reader is a destructive one (created with
casefile_get_destructive_reader) 


     Is method 2 an abomination?

As I understand it, method 2 is perfectly correct and preferable to
method 1 (you don't have to store a possibly huge number of data).

Maybe Ben can confirm this.

J'

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