Re: [bug #15690] Refactor /MISSING subcommands.

[Benjamin Levy Pfaff]

Quoting John Darrington <address@hidden>:

> It sounds like your idea is essentially the same as mine.  In your
> approach the predicate function takes more variables, whereas mine
> relies on static data.  Avoiding static data is of course a good
> thing.  The price however would be complicating the user interface of
> the casereader_get_reader function, since all the variables etc would
> have to be passed into it.  A compromise would be to have a single
> void *aux parameter, but that too is not without its disadvantages.

I'm not sure I understand why it's a good idea to integrate this into the
casereader.  If you don't, then you just do a loop around the function that
gets a case, which isn't really a big deal (is it?) and you don't have to
worry about static data at all.