On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 16:41 +0200, Jiří Zárevúcky wrote: > On 09/12/2009 01:34 PM, Jürg Billeter wrote: > >> -------------------------------------------------------- > >> 2. purely asynchronous methods > >> -------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> There are actions that can't be represented synchronously and methods > >> where synchronous variant needs to be written separately. 'nuff said. > >> This could perhaps be handled using specialized [Async] attribute with > >> appropriate parameters. > >> > > For this exact reason - and the fact that sometimes parameter lists > > differ slightly between sync and async variants -, I'm actually tending > > to drop the combined sync/async method support, and only support purely > > asynchronous methods. While combined methods sound interesting, they are > > not essential, and I prefer a solid slightly simpler async support to > > advanced async support with issues. > > > > I don't know about removing altogether. AFAIK it just feeds the normal > codegen with the same data, no big deal. Maybe it would be more > reasonable to disable by default with some attribute for enabling?
We can always readd proper support for this later if we think it makes sense. For now async methods are purely async. Jürg _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
