Re: [agtk-devel] AG API -- list return type

[Steve C. <ste...@mq...>]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:23, Kazuaki Maeda wrote:
> We are interested in hearing your opinions about the following possible
> changes in the API.
>
> In the current AG API, functions that return sets of ID's, names, etc. have
> the return type of "string" instead of "list".  For example,
> GetAnnotationSetByOffset returns a string that may look like
> "AGSet1:AG1:Annotation1 AGSet1:AG1:Annotation2 ...".  This requires
> additional processing on the application side.  We are thinking about
> changing the API in a future version of AGLIB such that these functions
> return lists instead of strings.

Absolutely, please make this change. These should never have been strings in 
the first place.  

The compile time switch might be a good way to manage the change but in the 
end everyone will be sure to move over given the obvious need for this.

Steve