Toby Thain <t...@telegraphics.com.au> was heard to say: > I think the deprecation is progressive because all in all it is > better if users always specify their instance explicitly. Hidden > global data has proven to be a liability in many such instances > (strtok(), errno, ...)
This is certainly the rationale behind the decision to deprecate the old versions. Also, most applications will only have to define an additional structure and pass an additional argument in three function calls. Sanity doesn't always come that cheap. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ libdbi-users mailing list libdbi-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libdbi-users