Re: Bug in datasheet.c ?

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 05:15:12PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
>      A better solution would be to detect that the data set has not
>      been changed by the syntax that we executed.  In that case, we
>      don't need to re-encapsulate it in a new datasheet. 
>
> Do what do we do if we decide that nothing has changed?  We've already
> called datasheet_make_reader, which has destroyed the datasheet.  So
> now we have to make another one.  How do we do that?

It hasn't destroyed the datasheet.  It just encapsulated it in a
casereader.  We could come up with a way to get it back.

I don't know the best mechanism yet.  It's on my list of
things-to-think-about-soon (but below patch #6117, which I'm
playing with now).
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