On 24 November 2012 23:36, Vladimir Panteleev <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:vladimir@thecybershadow.net" target="_blank">vladimir@thecybershadow.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Saturday, 24 November 2012 at 18:49:02 UTC, Manu wrote:<br>
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Hear hear! I agree, it should just be cloned verbatim.<br>
I for one have 15+ years of expectation about WINAPI, I don&#39;t want to look<br>
in any manual/reference to relearn how to use it again.<br>
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This sentiment is overexaggerated and unhelpful. Please provide an example of what sorts of &quot;relearning&quot; you&#39;d have to do.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I&#39;m simply stating my sentiment that ANY change to WIN32 is a very very bad idea.</div><div class="gmail_extra">It invalidates existing code, and existing learning/reference material. Not to mention how many programmers don&#39;t even know what unicode is (ie, the A/W alias argument).</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">&#39;Relearning&#39; in this instance might refer to learning/remembering what changes have been made.</div>