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Ted Dennison wrote:
[...]
> The best I could come up with for a Right Thing would be to keep a list of
> extant Location pointers in each List object. That way the list itself can go
> and invalidate the Location whenever it needs to (probably by flipping some
> "valid" boolean in the Location type). Locations would have to be limited for
> this to work, so the functions that return locations would have to be changed to
> procedures.

Why should they be limited?  If they are controlled, that should be enough or
do I miss something?

[...]

-- 
Jean-Marc