Re: defaulting to new_with_mnemonic sucks

[Guillaume Cottenceau <gc mandrakesoft com>]

"Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com> writes:

[...]

> the new_with_label variants are always available and in such cases should be
> used for clarities sake anyway. the new('string') is just a convince. if you
> want something particular to happen there's nothing keeping you from using the
> new_with_label('string') or new_with_mnemonic('string') for that matter.

Of course! That's what we do (hum do you think we're *that*
dumb?).
 
> the question was asked long long ago (when gtk2-perl-xs was first being worked
> on) and the list didn't raise objections and/or thought it was a good idea.

Ouch.
 
> mainly it was to encourage the use of mnemonics and it didn't in any way
> prevent you from doing anything you could of otherwise. the overloaded new's
> have a well defined, documented and adhered to behavior, that doesn't suck.

Ok.

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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/