Re: Managing multiple instances

Now it seems to me that you should either access A via its B owner (in
other words get specific B first, then use it to get its A instance), or
that B shouldn't be the creator of A. It's hard to tell though, without
more specific description.

Amen!!!!!! I joined the project after this data structure was already
in use so I can't argue a "throw away" principle but I'm trying to
modify it so it's a less bad idea.

But you hit it: B creates A (which adds the instances of A to the data
structure) and then other objects in what I am calling the client code
also use those instances of A. Rather than going through B they go to
this data structure and pull references to those instances of A and use
them.

Kind regards,

Ben

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