Re: [patch #5690] Clean up case code

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> I can see two alternative ways to overcome this, but neither are
> particularly nice:
>
> 1. Copy the case locally, write to it, and replace it into the
>    flexifile. This wouldn't be very efficient if we're dealing with
>    very large cases.
>
> 2. Introduce some kind of special case for use in flexifiles which
>    allows writing.
>
>
> I'm leaning towards 1, because it'd be easier to implement, and this
> operation wouldn't need to happen fast.

By the way, if this is bothering you while you're waiting for my
spiffy new code, feel free to check in some kind of stopgap.
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