27 Jun
2005
27 Jun
'05
10:52 p.m.
David Abrahams wrote:
"Peter Dimov" <pdimov@mmltd.net> writes:
If you are given an archive you don't know whether you are allowed to save by value, or whether you can safely save by pointer.
(In general.)
Yeah, but what's the use case for this? Someone you don't know hands you an archive and tells you to save something in it without telling you how it's safe to do so?
Yep, that's pretty much what happens every time your 'save' function is invoked.