Re: [PATCH 1/4] stringbuf: A string buffer implementation

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:30:35 -0600 Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote:

> It's a matter of taste ... some people prefer to use accessors for
> everything, other people prefer to expose the underlying structure
> directly.

Experience tells us that when you use accessors you end up thanking
yourself later on.  Especially when diddling struct page ;)

Although one really should make a best-effort guess at "how likely is
this to change in the future".  If the implementation-to-be-copied
has been out there for a while then "not very" is a good answer.

But hey, don't listen to me - I like C++, and approve of Java.

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