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> Your public interface should never use access types.
> Anonymous types are a bad idea.
Why so does the language allow it? Currently I could not think a better way=
 of running over a pointer list: get the item, run the top of the list to t=
he next one (and also keep the original pointer), free the original pointer=
 and return the (newest) pointer to the top of the list. The problem I got =
was exactly when I tried to do this directly from the input access (so the =
anonymous type problem)

> Psychologists have found that the 1st few letters of a word are the most =
important to recognizing what you're seeing. If many of your identifiers st=
art with the same few letters ("T_"), you are making your code harder to re=
ad than necessary.
I agree, but that's ok here. Think this as "be a general list type named T_=
List ..."