Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading.

2010-02-04 Thread Fredderic Unpenstein
(Re-posted to the group, didn't mean to send it to Jiri personally...) I understand that. No one wants to do someone else's work for no forseeable gain. And it likely would be a fair bit of work, sorting out the resultant mess of what can and can't be conversed to fit which overloaded

Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading.

2010-01-12 Thread Sam Liddicott
Message- From: Jiří Zárevúcky zarevucky.j...@gmail.com Sent: 08 January 2010 15:25 To: Fabzter fabos...@gmail.com Cc: vala-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading. Fabzter píše v Čt 07. 01. 2010 v 16:01 -0600: Hi. I have been playing with Vala for some months. I find

Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading.

2010-01-12 Thread Jiří Zárevúcky
Sam Liddicott píše v Út 12. 01. 2010 v 07:25 +: Overloading could easily be supported with mandatory cname or csuffix attributes; that an explicit name needs to be given for C is no reason that it needs to be given for vala which could do regular overloading. I think it ought to be

Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading.

2010-01-12 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Jiří Zárevúcky wrote, On 12/01/10 14:43: Sam Liddicott píše v Út 12. 01. 2010 v 07:25 +: Overloading could easily be supported with mandatory cname or csuffix attributes; that an explicit name needs to be given for C is no reason that it needs to be given for vala which could do

Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading.

2010-01-12 Thread Fabien CELLIER
Hi, IMHO overloading is a good feature for maintenance and backward compatibility but it should follow some rules in order to avoid bad impact in C code , for example (with convention over configuration): vala code void show(){...} void show(string label){...} C code void show{} void

Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading.

2010-01-12 Thread Jiří Zárevúcky
Sam Liddicott píše v Út 12. 01. 2010 v 16:04 +: * Jiří Zárevúcky wrote, On 12/01/10 14:43: Sam Liddicott píše v Út 12. 01. 2010 v 07:25 +: Overloading could easily be supported with mandatory cname or csuffix attributes; that an explicit name needs to be given for C is no

Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading.

2010-01-11 Thread Sam Liddicott
Zárevúcky zarevucky.j...@gmail.com Sent: 08 January 2010 15:25 To: Fabzter fabos...@gmail.com Cc: vala-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading. Fabzter píše v Čt 07. 01. 2010 v 16:01 -0600: Hi. I have been playing with Vala for some months. I find it to be a really cool

Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading.

2010-01-08 Thread Jiří Zárevúcky
Fabzter píše v Čt 07. 01. 2010 v 16:01 -0600: Hi. I have been playing with Vala for some months. I find it to be a really cool language, thus, I'm thinking in porting an medium sized personal project from C# to Vala, but it relies heavyly on method and constructor overloading, and having this

[Vala] Support for method overloading.

2010-01-07 Thread Fabzter
Hi. I have been playing with Vala for some months. I find it to be a really cool language, thus, I'm thinking in porting an medium sized personal project from C# to Vala, but it relies heavyly on method and constructor overloading, and having this features in Vala would make my refactoring work

Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading.

2010-01-07 Thread Jim Nelson
Discussed here: http://live.gnome.org/Vala/ValaForJavaProgrammers#Method_Overloading (The whole page is worth reading, in fact.) -- Jim On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Fabzter fabos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I have been playing with Vala for some months. I find it to be a really cool language,