Michael Jennings wrote: > On Tuesday, 13 March 2007, at 20:46:20 (+0100), > Sebastian Dransfeld wrote: > >> Why do I bother arguing? > > About making a clean function destructive? Heck if I know... > > If you wanted to remove the strdup(), the caller would have to accept > the destructive nature of the function or remember to pass strdup(str) > as the first parameter instead of just str. This would be okay (i.e., > no memory leak) since the pointer is reused. But it still makes ugly > and non-intuitive code. Better to leave it as is. > > Michael >
I agree. Only stated that it was an option, not whether it was sane :) Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
