Re: [Vala] embedding c code snippet in vala source.

[Sam Liddicott <sam liddicott com>]

* Alexey Lubimov wrote, On 22/08/08 12:53:
> Jürg Billeter пишет:
>> On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 06:45 -0400, Yu Feng wrote:
>>  
>>> Man this is a trap. There is no logical relation between failing to
>>> provide examples and the the validaty of a feature.
>>>     
>>
>> I agree, however, I don't see a reason to merge a feature as long as
>> there is no use case for it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jürg
>>
>>   
> I hope, this is good feature for hackers, for non trivial bindings  or
> debug purposes;
>
> For example, You can copy any existing vapi file to project tree and
> add debug assert to them without vala source code modifications.
>
> Or wrap several lib-functions (allocate buffers or any other  service
> ) to one function for vala.
>
>
> Maybe, this is not good cases for develop production  software, but 
> this is very important for  beginers and hackers.

It will help me prototype the remainder of the compact-class
implementation, so I'll be patching my compiler with it anyway.


Sam