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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Looking for ideas to improve library API
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Documentation is all you can do.

-- Devin

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 5:35 AM, Chris Lalancette <clalancette@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Devin Jeanpierre
> <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why not take ownership of the file object, instead of requiring users
>> to manage lifetimes?
>
> Yeah, I've kind of been coming to this conclusion.  So my question
> then becomes: how do I "take ownership" of it?  I already keep a
> reference to it, but how would I signal to the API user that they
> should no longer use that file object (other than documentation)?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris