Re: proposed API change

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

René Seindal said:
>  Adding the model to the list will make otherwise simple and straightforward
> code more complicated and error prone.  If we really want to stick to the C
> API, the call should be
>
>     my $model;
>     @paths = $selection->get_selected_rows(\$model);
>
> If that is chosen, I think we should also have
>
>     $iter = $selection->get_selected(\$model);
>
> where in either case the argument can be left out, just as it can be NULL in
> the C API.

i very strongly disagree with this, on the grounds that it is highly
non-perlish to write through references passed as arguments.  this is a C
idiom that perl goes out of its way to avoid and i do not want it to leak
through.



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