[cairo] API Shakeup: cairo_current_path -> cairo_copy_path_data

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Fri Mar 11 16:11:37 PST 2005


Around 18 o'clock on Mar 11, mental at rydia.net wrote:

> That doesn't seem quite so bad, though given this is non-refcounted
> POD, it might make sense to employ a different convention like
> _free instead of _destroy to underscore the distinction.

We already decided that synonyms were a no-no in the API.  Mass hysteria 
results (vis XDestroy/XFree confusion -- I never know if it's XFreeFoo
or XDestroyFoo for any Foo).

-keith


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