> I hate "cookies". Despicable. Why pass them in at all if they are not
> supposed to be used for anything but callbacks?
So the callback knows what is going on. Like umm Duh ???
Its can be a nice construct when you need to pass parameters through a
generic layer but dont want to attach them permanently to structures. The
net code makes rather nice use of it..
There is the matter of doing it in the right cases and with taste but your
general 'ugh' doesn't reflect reality.
Alan
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