Re: [RFC/PATCH] Introduce list_get() and list_get_tail()

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Jul 08 2006 - 10:14:52 EST


On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 15:58 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add primitives to access first and last elements of a list instead
> > of accessng pointers directly.
>
> Wouldn't that be beter named list_first() and list_last() then?
> _get is like _do and usually not very descriptive.

and _get tends to imply a reference count as well; I'm with Andi on
this.. list_first() and list_last()

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