On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:05:29 -0700
"Christian Hergert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Wanted to suggest a feature that would be useful to simply the
> consumption of GValue based methods. Just a bit of compiler magic to
> automatically box/unbox values into GValue's?
> 
> For example,
> 
> public void do_something (GValue *value);
> 
> // create a gvalue, and use proper g_value_set method
> do_something ("blah");
> or
> do_something (100);
> 
> If others are interested, I will create a bug.

The idea is pretty good, but if I understand correctly this will lead to
a C API using GValues as parameters for the various methods. Which is
absolutely not convenient if you intend to use a library written in Vala (eg
libgee, but I'm pretty sure more will come) from a C program.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.

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