W == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: W> For the same reason you wouldn't modify data in a C structure belonging W> to W> an API you're using. It violates the general software engineering W> principles of information hiding and encapsulation. There are all kinds W> of W> reasons putting your own data into an API's structure is bad, for W> instance W> if the implementation changes then your trick may no longer work, and W> your W> code will not be portable to new versions of the library.
Understood. -- Brandon
