Are there public APIs available to check/validate ...

[Havoc Pennington]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Simon McVittie
<simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> I must admit I'm not clear on why none of these are available as public API,
> particularly when that would have been easy to do. Havoc, do you still
> read this list?

Often, but not reliably ...

> If so, why are these (apparently deliberately) not public?

Just didn't get around to it I think. I was probably wanting to make
sure they had a nice signature and had docs and good function names
and all that, before making them public.

> It'd be good to have them public as part of the general principle of "if a
> function has preconditions, then language bindings should be able to check
> those preconditions themselves".

Agreed.

Havoc