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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