Use of complete GList functionality? Change to GSList?

[Derek Atkins]

Dave Peticolas <dave@krondo.com> writes:

> Derek Atkins writes:
> > Is a KVP_TYPE_GLIST guaranteed to always just a list of kvp_values?
> > If so, then I can deal with that :)
> 
> Yes, that is a guarantee.

Great.  That makes life easy :)  Is this documented anywhere?

> > One of my major issues with the GList construct is that there is no
> > way to validate the _type_ of list you've got.  In other words, there
> > is no way to be assured that you have list of type foo.  I could pass
> > a GList of type foo to a function that is expecting a GList of type
> > bar, and there is no way to detect that.  :(
> 
> True. Care must be taken :)

Yea, yea.  So much for having the compiler help us.. ;)

> dave

-derek

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