Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Dec 03 2006 - 18:15:44 EST


On Sun 2006-12-03 23:52:54, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > > What exactly is the pita here? Al only came up with some rather
> > > theoretical problems with no practical relevance.
> >
> > Lack of type-checking in timers is ugly.
>
> It's a matter of perspective, a bit more type checking would be nice, but
> breaking the API just for that is ugly as well. Unless there is a bad need
> for it, I don't think it's worth it...

I do not think Al is breaking anything. He's adding that typechecking,
old interface can still stay for a while.
Pavel
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