Re: [Libvisual-devel] Random design questions:

[Burkhard P. <pl...@ip...>]

Dennis Smit wrote:
> Heya list,
> 
> I've got some things I'd like to discuss:
> 
> Currently in plugins we often do BlahPriv *priv = plugin->priv;
> 
> what do you people think about having something like:
> 
> BlahPriv *priv = VISUAL_PLUGIN_PRIVATE (plugin);
> 
> or, would it nicer to make a define in the
> style of visual_plugin_get_private (plugin);, to be in
> style with the rest of the accessor methods ?
> 
In all cases, the programmer has to write one line,
so typing time is hardly saved. Using

BlahPriv *priv = plugin->priv;

has the advantage, that everyone knows what's going on,
even without reading documentation. I use this method
in my whole code.


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