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From: zben@umd5 (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacTutor Considered Harmful (really fake handles)
Message-ID: <1226@umd5>
Date: Wed, 27-Aug-86 17:14:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: umd5.1226
Posted: Wed Aug 27 17:14:10 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Aug-86 21:27:06 EDT
References: <139@apple.UUCP> <26700068@inmet>
Reply-To: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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Summary: You really do want it

In article <26700068@inmet> bhyde@inmet.UUCP writes:

> ...Second about this handle stuff?  I usually fack a handle in
> my global data area.  It never occured to me that somebody who
> uses the handle might decide that it was really a handle and
> start treating it as such.  What a mess!  This means that every
> place that the documentation says a things a handle I'll actually
> have to allocate a real Handle from the memory manager and then
> stuff it full of things to make it have the values I want in it.
> If it is code then I'll have either make it a real code resource
> or I'll have to "stuff a jsr into it."  (What a hack!)

It may seem a hack, but what about those routines that add to an
existing data structure?  They rely upon being able to make the area
pointed to by a handle bigger!  You want them to make your carefully
faked data array bigger for you?   :-)
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