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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello All,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">After the December hackathon, Glen Wiley asked me to review the getdns API, opining that a fresh set of eyes might be useful. I agreed to take a look, and wrote most of the attached review over my holiday vacation. Earlier today Neel
Goyal asked me to share it with the mailing list, so here it is (after a little bit of polishing).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I approached the review from the perspective of a C++ programmer, thinking about how I might wrap the API in a set of C++ classes. So naturally, things like const correctness and type safety are important to me.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve gone out on a limb and implemented the changes suggested by my review in the two attached header files. The first header file, getdns_core.h, reflects the recommendations made in Section 2 of my review, while the second header file,
vdns_core.h, implements the overall refactoring recommended in Section 3 of my review.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I realize Section 3 proposes some big cosmetic changes, and so I hope it leads to some useful discussions.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">--Bob</p>
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