On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:28:38PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | I wonder a bit why you suddenly want to make things more visible than > | they need to be. This does not look like your usual quest... > > It not making things visible, it is more not making things > invisible... > > And if caching like this is needed, it should most likely be pushed > out into a wrapper class.
It is local caching in a function for the very well defined purposes of making that function faster [Probably not needed in this case, but we are talking about principles]. This is an implementation detail which does not even have to be documented (except for the loss of re-entrance) let alone to show up in the class interface or in the class structure... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
