From: "Ike" <drone AT ismi DOT net>
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Subject: Re: BITMAP pointers w/ Allegro.
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 14:35:25 -0700
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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I've got a question about that,  I was asking around on IRC about this
problem and they said that its improper programming practice (wow that's
hard to say) to have the return value of a function be a pointer.  They said
that it violates the law of encapsulation.  But I've noticed that the
Allegro library does it all the time with BITMAP structures,  is that bad?

> Or, you may want to try this:
>
> BITMAP *function() {
> BITMAP *bmp = create_bitmap(320, 240);
> return bmp;
> }
>