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>Naah. Leave it as is. Design flaws such as non null terminated XmNitems and

I'm as ready to complain about Motif (sure, even Xt) design as anyone,
but surely someone who uses LISP all the time shouldn't complain about
aspects of the design meant to help languages other than C.  I believe
that this kind of stuff is to help with interfaces to Fortran, which
doesn't have pointers or address functions, making it hard to say "until
the address is NULL, do...".  I think you've just been passing the "n"
argument in XtSetValues, XtGetValues, and a million others for so long
that you've forgotten about it.  I don't like it either, but the whole
idea of doing object-oriented programming in PDP macro assembler is
deranged anyway :-) though I certainly am thankful to those who made it
work and am not willing to spill my blood in a vain attempt to get the
world to agree on any of the perhaps technically superior but certainly
narrowly accepted alternatives.

>the "hidden XmScrolledWindowWidgetClass parents of XmList and XmText"

Amen. Amen. Amen. ... rb