Mladen Turk wrote: > > Do not understand why are you against such a solution. > The half-way is IMHO always better then no-way :)
Half-assed means that users rely on the design paradigm, only to discover later that it isn't portable. Part of the flaw was that this should have been noticed by the person who implemented the API on the Win32 platform with an obervation that it wasn't portable. Then one of three things happen, we choose not to implement it, we choose to implement with a #define that warns the user the pattern isn't portable or available in the current compilation, or we return ENOTIMPL to warn them at run time it's not available. You aren't solving the problem of helping users write portable code, which is the reason for my ongoing objection.
