* Patrick McHardy [ref] 2005-06-30 15:27

Thomas Graf wrote:

quoted

Good point, after all, I think structs have been used too often
and we now suffer from backwards compatbility issues. The
points likely to be argueable are things like trim responsibility
in the error handling, i.e. delegate it down to the function
which also created the header or trim on every level. Other than
that the whole thing should be pretty straight forward.

I think for nested attributes error handling should happen on the
outer level. Just trimming on the inner level would leave a
half-finished nested attribute.

I can agree with this, the question that remains is: do we want
to trim in functions where no nesting is done at all? i.e. things
like the generic network statistics dumping interface.