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Strongly disagree. There's way too much mystery and magic number usage in the official documentation.
by torstenvl 1y ago
Strongly disagree. There's way too much mystery and magic number usage in the official documentation.
- crimsontech 1y agoCan you recommend any good alternatives for someone looking to learn programming using windows APIs?
- formerly_proven 1y agoThe magic numbers (hashes and UUIDs) sort of make sense because there's a slightly adversarial interaction between developers and Microsoft. If you just had a compatibleWindowsMin and compatibleWindowsMax field with version numbers, people would just go ahead and put "9999" in the max field, and then OS upgrades break applications again. By using UUIDs instead, an application developer can't intentionally or unintentionally declare compatibility with unreleased Windows versions.