Re: Some differences between Gtk and Gtk2

[=?iso-8859-15?q?J=F6rn?= Reder <joern zyn de>]

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:

> $tree_view->signal_connect(button_press_event => sub { .. });
> 
> Perl will correctly convert the bareword to a string. Granted,
> there can be confusion because when extracting the type of the
> event, gtk sends it back in the '-' form, as discussed above.

That's true, but I'd say the possibility of omitting the quotes here is
more important than this slightly confusion. Ok, in Gtk signal names use
'-', but if Perl Gtk2 can do the magic, that we may use '_' instead with
all it's syntactic advantages, we shouldn't drop this. If the 
application developer is confused by that, he simply should use the 
original style 'button-press-event' => sub { }, forget about the 
alternatives Perl offers and get happy ;)

Regards,

Joern

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Joern Reder
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