Re: Confused about owner

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> Quoting Alain Magloire <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> > There is a proposal by dxxxxxs to change the "void *owner"
> 
> Who is dxxxxxs?

He just sent email to the list, breaking a long silence.

> > Why do you need this?  As you pointed out the "void *owner" is use
> 
> I thought the owner of a message would be the mailbox, and I wanted
> the mailbox of a message.
> 
> Then I found the message_get_mailbox() call, but I was trying to figure
> out what the conceptual place of owner was. If I understand a concept,
> the implementation becomes a detail, if I don't understand the
> concept, the implementation is a collection of trivia, and I have
> a bad memory for trivia! I get the idea now.


See the propose changes, in other emails, if it was not clear for
you then it was a hint that things were badly implemented.  Of course
the lack of documentation did not help but ...

So I've made a proposal, hoping things we'll get a little more "elegant".

-- 
au revoir, alain
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