From c69c0d5cbf0588c5185c0b170747b1c9fc60c689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fred <fred>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:43:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] flower-1.0.13

---
 flower/plist.hh | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/flower/plist.hh b/flower/plist.hh
index 704a883f83..19db901f8a 100644
--- a/flower/plist.hh
+++ b/flower/plist.hh
@@ -20,9 +20,12 @@ class PointerList : public List<void *>
     void concatenate(PointerList<T> const &s) { List<void*>::concatenate(s); }
     PointerList() {}
 };
+/** This class does no deletion of the pointers, but it knows how to
+  copy itself (shallow copy). We could have derived it from List<T>,
+  but this design saves a lot of code dup; for all PointerLists in the
+  program only one parent List<void*> is instantiated.  */
 
-
-/// intrusive pl. deletes pointers given to it.
+///  pl. which deletes pointers given to it.
 template<class T>
 struct IPointerList : public PointerList<T> {
     IPointerList(IPointerList&) { set_empty(); }
@@ -33,6 +36,7 @@ protected:
 };
 /**
   NOTE:
+  
   The copy constructor doesn't do what you'd want:
   Since T might have a virtual ctor, we don't try to do a
 
-- 
2.39.5