Re: [PATCH] GIterator

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just to add a dissenting voice - I think GLib containers probably
> should have been done with iterators in the first place, but failing
> that, IMO having two ways to do iteration adds too much extra
> complexity to be worth it. It's better if there's only one way to do
> it.
>
> We would end up sort of pseudo-deprecating all the foreach()
> functions, all functions that return a list, list->next style
> iteration, etc., and that's just too much churn in the "recommended"
> API set, even if the old API still works.
>  
I agree that deprecating all functions not using iterators is not going 
to happen.  But it would be useful to have this sort of functionality 
would be nice to have in glib for use by new APIs and inside apps/other 
libs using glib.  The existance of GList didn't prevent the addition of 
GQueue, or plans to add a GRing type.

James.

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