On Saturday, 24 November 2012 at 23:11:35 UTC, Manu wrote:
On 24 November 2012 23:36, Vladimir Panteleev
<[email protected]>wrote:
On Saturday, 24 November 2012 at 18:49:02 UTC, Manu wrote:
Hear hear! I agree, it should just be cloned verbatim.
I for one have 15+ years of expectation about WINAPI, I don't
want to look
in any manual/reference to relearn how to use it again.
This sentiment is overexaggerated and unhelpful. Please
provide an example
of what sorts of "relearning" you'd have to do.
I'm simply stating my sentiment that ANY change to WIN32 is a
very very bad idea.
Reasoning in absolutes is not constructive.
It invalidates existing code, and existing learning/reference
material.
Please provide a concrete example.
Not to mention how many programmers don't even know what
unicode is (ie, the A/W alias argument).
I don't understand how this is relevant to this discussion.
'Relearning' in this instance might refer to
learning/remembering what
changes have been made.
Part of the goal is to minimize required changes in correct code.
Even in those cases (assuming they will even exist), the compiler
will produce a helpful error message (e.g expected type void*,
got HGLOBAL). The code can be easily fixed in a
backwards-compatible way by adding a cast.
