> but nobody in decades thought to make this information accessible to the programmer
Isn’t this implementation details, and an information already available caller side. It would be like returning the filename for a file handle. The more extraneous details in an API, the less flexible it is.
Isn’t this implementation details, and an information already available caller side. It would be like returning the filename for a file handle. The more extraneous details in an API, the less flexible it is.