Re: limited private types

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

r_srinivasan@my-deja.com wrote:
> I am developing a file processing application that requires opening and
> closing of an unspecified number of files. Ideally i would like to
> build a "stack" of "files".

Well, one possible alternative is to store the information necessary to
open and close the file rather than the file itself. (The string for the
name, etc.) Of course this depends on if you have to have them open all
at once or not.

There's probably other ways, but I have not given it enough thought just
yet. In general, I'd consider it a bad idea to have lots of files open
all at once if it can be avoided. Better to open and close them as
needed. If you do need them open all at once, maybe you could collect up
the names and once the number is known, allocate an array of File_Type
that matches the number you need.

What exactly are the requirements? There may be a better alternative.

MDC
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