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On Wed April 15 2009, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2009-04-15, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue April 14 2009, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> > > On 14 Apr 2009, at 9:28 , Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > > > There is a reason I asked for input a long time ago. All these
> > > > sudden changes
> > > > are a bit of a shock. Why was it fine before and now its somehow
> > > > broken?
> > >
> > > Don't take it personally.
> > > You implement something and at some point you (or someone else)
> > > realises that there's a reason to change it - so they change it at
> > > that point.
> >
> > I'm just wondering why its done now all of a sudden, instead of back when
> > I was asking for input?
>
> I already answered this.
>
> Another reason: most of the time I didn't have a good idea what you were
> trying to do. You posted function prototypes and a few rough
> descriptions, the rest of it being inside your head. Since I didn't
> understand, I didn't speak up. I did ask for documentation a few times.
I was asking for input, suggestions and questions. if you had questions you
should have asked.
> > All these changed that aren't even being discussed. Just
> > someone deciding thats whats best and making several whole sale changes
> > without asking.
>
> It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. I didn't make any
> substantial changes yet anyway; there are bigger changes afoot and they
> are being discussed.
>
> > > > No one will be used to allegro's api, so they shouldn't find a
> > > > different, more sane ordering /bad/.
> > >
> > > The order is completely arbitrary (there is no reason one order should
> > > be better than another, but it does somewhat depend on what you're
> > > used to), so I would say the best thing to do is go with whatever the
> > > "standard" convention is. Otherwise it gets confusing.
> >
> > Well then, why don't we do that for everything then? Lets change the api
> > back to being a much closer clone of stdio as I had originally planned
> > then.
>
> That's more than fine with me. I would prefer it.
I made a few moves away from stdio on your recommendation fwir.
> Peter
>
>
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