Kenneth Aafl?y wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2005 09:15, you wrote: > >>Johannes Stezenbach wrote: >> >>>Typedefs have a purpose: Creating an abstraction, i.e. hiding >>>information about the type from the user. IMHO it is totally useless to >>>stick a typedef on every struct or enum definition. All you get is >>>obfuscation. And the _t suffixes are ugly, too. >>>Please ask yourself if and why you want to hide from the users >>>of your API why e.g. vid_dev_hierarchy_t is an enum. >> >>Yes, typedef's really make opaque data types, The programmer feels >>really comfortable, but a newbie would find it quite a bit hard, ie, a >>larger learning curve for the new types. ie, a longer period somebody >>has to work on that to get moving. > > > Ack! > > I'm currently playing with implementing an interface based on the ideas in > this discussion, can't promise when I'll have something even close to what > is desired, so don't hold your breath. Why don't we have a standard interface what i mentioned in my previous mail ? Manu
