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RE: curl_easy_setopt type checking for C++

From: Marcel Raad via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 14:18:13 +0000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: curl-library <curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se> On Behalf Of Daniel
> Stenberg via curl-library
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 December, 2019 15:04
> To: Jeff Mears via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
> Cc: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
> Subject: Re: curl_easy_setopt type checking for C++
>
> If there's a downside with automatically converting ints to longs in those two
> functions, it is that it will create more code out there for people to copy and
> paste from that will generate errors and pain if that C++ version would look
> exactly the same as the C version but in that imaginary C++ version we can
> pass in an int and it will be fine we cannot in the C version...
>
> So, I lean towards erroring on wrong type.

+1 for consistency.

Marcel

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Received on 2019-12-10