Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jason Kivlighn <jkivlighn AT gmail.com>]

Sounds like my code :-)

The short answer is avoid extra loops required to handle the complexity
of not knowing how many licenses are going to be in each list ahead of
time.  The next to last loop in ll_new_license_chooser should show why
this is.

So that's the "internal" and perhaps lazy reason.  If we want
consistency we can either do extra processing in ll_new_license_chooser,
or convert the linked-list to a null-terminated array in
ll_get_licenses_from_flags (although now that I write this down, this
second method would be either inefficient or inconsistent anyway).

Cheers,
Jason

Peter Miller wrote:
> Hi LibLicense developers,
>
> I've been reading the ll_license_chooser code.  Why does
> ll_license_list_t exist?  Why doesn't the license chooser code use a
> char** list like the rest of the code?
>
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