[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8800) [RFC] Usage of speclist vs specvec

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8800 >

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 04:02:52AM -0700, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
> How about just assuming the programmer knows what he/she is doing
> and making the API serve him instead of getting in his way? This
> sort of thing just makes code even more opaque and harder to
> understand.

It is about abstraction. The programmer doesn't have to know how it is
implemented. He doesn't have to know because in the almost all cases
it makes no difference in the runtime and in the interface.

There would be a DEFAULT flag for init.

        Raimar

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