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From: claytor@tandem.physics.upenn.edu (Nelson Claytor)
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Subject: Re: Another THINK Pascal gotcha - "With" instance vars
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Date: 6 Feb 91 16:34:08 GMT
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In article <1991Feb6.060512.12890@uniwa.uwa.oz> andreww@uniwa.uwa.oz 
(Andrew John Williams) writes:
> What happens if some program running in the background chooses that
> moment to do some memory shuffling?

Umm...I don't think that a background program can shuffle *your* heap.  
How about replacing rule #2 with "Always read the Memory Manager chapters 
of Scott Knaster's books." :-)

Nelson

Nelson Claytor
claytor@tandem.physics.upenn.edu