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On 12/27/2017 01:29 PM, Mehdi Saada wrote:
> To compensate for the lack of exercices, I rewrote part of the package provided by the teacher. It sure allows a better understanding of what's going on.

It can be an instructive exercise to take an existing library and write (some 
of) the pkg bodies from scratch, without referring to the existing implementation.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"C++ is like jamming a helicopter inside a Miata
and expecting some sort of improvement."
Drew Olbrich
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