Re: Understanding ACI

From: Peter Busser <peter@vpro.nl>
Subject: Re: Understanding ACI
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:17:37 +0100

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Hi!

> However I would like to make a suggestion regarding the lists.. maybe an 
> abstraction of the lists would be in order? It would be nice if all list 
> functionality was separated from the rest of the code. I think that the level 
> of security is somewhat raised by such a move as well. Or maybe I should say 
> the confidence of security. Chain of reasoning: Less code -> lesser 
> likelyhood of bugs -> higher confidence.

One could write a list code generator. It reads a list definition and writes
.c and .h files that implement it in C. It would make code reviews easier if
it is done well.

Groetjes,
Peter Busser
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