Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Retrieving dissection result from another dissector

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 3, 2018, at 12:01 PM, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As the scope is an explicit argument, I find it quite clear what's going on already.

As the two functions are quite different in intent, I find it not entirely clear, merely from the scope, what's going on.

> Personally I do not think a new function is required (the add/get/remove being what they mean), and they are here since a long time so it would change existing habits.

I'd like to change habits so that people think of "persistent per-packet data" and "per-dissection data" very differently.