Re: Lua library api style recommendations

[Jorge Visca <xxopxe@...>]

On 5/5/23 19:30, siiky wrote:
> I recently had this exact problem in a C library I'm working on. In 
> the end I went with something like the following:
>
>
> // `d` for "destructive"
> void foo_do_something_d (foo *a, foo *b)
> ...
> void foo_do_something (foo *r, foo *a, foo *b)
> ...

I see this as the explicit out parameter case, but instead of testing 
for *b==null inside foo_do_something you separated that case in a call 
with different signature *and* name.


> (Didn't reply to the list by mistake, sorry for the duplicate, Jorge)

No problem, I did the same in this thread in m two first responses :\


Jorge