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Article #3713Re: TimeSetEvent
From: Bruce Salzman
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:15
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:15
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"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message news:44528e06@newsgroups.borland.com... > > " Bruce Salzman" <bruce@nospam.org> wrote in message > news:44526fbb@newsgroups.borland.com... > >> see "Kludge" > > Not a kluge. It is a very powerful alternative when a callback does > not > allow user-defined values and you don't want to use global pointers. > > One man's kludge is another man's powerful alternative, I guess. It's one thing for a compiler/library vendor to do this kind of thing, with (presumably) full knowlege of the pitfalls. It's quite another to put it in your own application. I would hate to be the next (or next, or...) programmer hired to maintain something like this, regardless of how elegent it is in theory. Just my two cents. -- Bruce
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X-Google-Thread: 10cc67,7550567434949799 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc67,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: " Bruce Salzman" <bruce@nospam.org> Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi References: <ozchzhq02-9725F7.12284128042006@frylock.local> <32i4521k20p3ha1bq744jvbfteei2kr01q@4ax.com> <445265cc$1@newsgroups.borland.com> <44526fbb@newsgroups.borland.com> <44528e06@newsgroups.borland.com> Subject: Re: TimeSetEvent Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:15:10 -0500 Lines: 28 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.94.228.231 Message-ID: <4452939e$1@newsgroups.borland.com> X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1146262430 24.94.228.231 (28 Apr 2006 15:13:50 -0700) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail