On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Vlad Grecescu <
b100dian gmail com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Florian Brosch <
flo brosch gmail com> wrote:
> Hi, guys.
>
> A new feature of valac 0.1.8 is a way to set the default-value of
a property:
>
> public int rank {
> construct set;
> private get;
> default ( 5 );
> }
>
>
> We talked about the syntax in #vala. Chipzz and I think that following
> looks more appealing:
>
> public int rank {
> construct set;
> private get;
> default = 5;
> }
>
syntax for this.
The first thing that crossed my mind was
public int rank {
construct set;
private get;
} = 5;
but that's barely readable when you actually have an implementation
for getter and setter
private int _rank = 5;
public int rank { construct get; private set; };
would be enough in my opinion.
On the other hand, since the setter already introduces a keyword,
'value', one could use:
public int rank {
construct set;
private get;
value = 5;
}
Anyway, if the choice is between the two, I would go for the second
default = 5
I agree "default" would be a better keyword. But what about the allowable min/max for
numeric properties? And parent type for type properties, etc.
public int rank {
construct set;
private get;
default = 5;
min = 0;
}
Or maybe that's better left to an attribute?
- more readable (as opposed to optimized c++ initialization code that
obfuscates i=0 into i(0))