Subject: Re: AbiSource, Ispell, Aspell, take 2
From: Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 06:56:07 CST
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> Here is a better description of my proposed library with sudo examples.
>
> Please give lots of feedback thanks.
>
[Sections 1-2 snipped]
> 3 Usage
>
> When your application first starts you should get a new configuration
> class with the command:
>
> PspellConfig * spell_config = new_pspell_config();
>
> which will create a new PspellConfig class. It is allocated with new
> and it is your responsibility to delete it with delete (not free).
[More stuff talked about ...]
> Finally, when the document is closed the PspellManager class should be
> deleted like so.
>
> delete spell_checker;
>
> Do not use free as it is not allocated with malloc.
May I recommend that since you have a construction function
(rather than just instantiating the class) that you also
have a destruction function:
destroy_pspell_config(PspellConfig *spell_config);
This means that people won't have to worry about what is
going on underneath (ie malloc vs new, delete vs free) and
it makes the API more symetric.
Thomas
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