Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This applies to origin/master. > > For better readability and understandability for newcomers it is a good idea > to not offer 2 APIs doing the same thing with on being the #define of the other. > > In the long run we may want to drop the macros guarded by > NO_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS. This converts a couple of them. Why? Why should we keep typing &the_index, when most of the time we are given _the_ index and working on it?