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On Tuesday, October 7, 2014 3:58:36 PM UTC-4, Stribor40 wrote:
>=20
> Is there anything wrong with doing g it this way and if there is better w=
ay to do this?

The preferred way (open to interpretation) is to remove the object entirely=
, expose the type in the spec, have the client declare it as necessary, and=
 pass it as an 'in out' argument to the functions.  Or, even better, wrap i=
t up in a private type and so forth.

-sb