Sean Kelly wrote:
Rory McGuire Wrote:
I think perhaps you mis-understood, it is mostly not stupidity that causes
people to use
undocumented "features" of an API but rather, it is people being overly
"clever".
Or sometimes simply desperation. There are some classes of apps that require
the use of undocumented API calls to operate on Windows--I believe disk
defragmenters are one example. Microsoft rightly didn't document these calls
because it wasn't prepared to support them long-term, but in doing so they also
prevented users from doing necessary work and effectively forced them into
using API calls that might change unexpectedly. I think these users accept
this problem and do the necessary verification and updating when new OS
revisions are released however.
Remember Windows 3.0? File handling involved undocumented API calls!
