On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:15:47PM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:31:44AM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > > how about returning the duplicate node rather than a boolean?
> > 
> > I don't think that is a common use case. E.g. normally insert is used to
> > prepare a new node and a duplicate entry is an actual error. I can't
> > think of a good example where you want to replace the existing entry and
> > didn't check for that earlier.
> > 
> > Joerg
> 
> i'm not suggesting to automatically replace an existing node.

No, but for what other reason should it return a pointer to the existing
node?

Joerg