> “That's because I thought it made sense to represent a book as a sequence of Unicode code points stored along with the cumulative lengths of the individual fi

> “That's because I thought it made sense to represent a book as a sequence of Unicode code points stored along with the cumulative lengths of the individual fields. But you don't have to worry about it, since the auxiliary functions book_xxx are the ones that represent the interface that users should interact with.” I’m not saying you should ever fire a coworker out of a cannon. I’m just saying that I wouldn’t always hold it against you.