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From: weeks@hpdtczb.HP.COM (Greg Weeks)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: `Display *display;' and such
Message-ID: <650008@hpdtczb.HP.COM>
Date: 29 May 91 23:50:17 GMT
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Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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As the writer of the basenote, I think I'd better say what it was for.

Mostly, I'd like to hear from people who agree.  No one is likely to be
swayed by the arguments themselves -- how often does that happen in notes
groups?  But I hope people who agree already will be able recognize their
opinions in the basenote which, in summary, says this:

    A mutable real-life object has a fixed identity in addition to a
    variable state.  The state may be represented with a structure, but the
    object itself should be represented with a pointer.

To those who agree: lets commiserate.