RE: adding key to DB object

From: Brandon Metcalf (bmetcalf_at_nortel.com)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:32:39 -0600 (CST)
To: "Rutherdale, Will" <Will.Rutherdale@sciatl.com>

W == Will.Rutherdale@sciatl.com 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

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