Re: RFC: warnings on ignoring return value on some list operations

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 07:11 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:

> The GList API isn't an opaque abstract data structure; it's a a set of 
> well-defined operations on list nodes. It would not be OK to change the
> g_list_append() operation to modify the list in some different way,
> no matter what is documented. (The API existed 3-4 years before the
> docs after all.)

I'm not sure what the status is here. I think my patch is mostly OK with
respect to what Owen says. Do we want to commit it, or should I change
it somehow?

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