[Mono-dev] DateTime/DateTimeFormatInfo patch to reduce Clone()

[Mirco Bauer]

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 20:09 +0100, Paolo Molaro wrote:
> On 11/30/06 Atsushi Eno wrote:
> > I noticed that many string[] properties in DateTimeFormatInfo are
> > used directly in DateTime. They have to return Clone() which are
> > not neccessary there.
> 
> If the arrays are exposed to the user, we should clone them, otherwise
> the user can change the values in the arrays and break later code.

*cough* lack of const *cough*

sorry could not resist :-P

> When used internally you could reference the array without cloning,
> though.
> 
> lupus
> 
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Regards,

Mirco 'meebey' Bauer

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