vala 0.40.15

[Rico Tzschichholz <install-module master gnome org>]

About vala
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valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates
Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject
type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala
source code.

The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the
GObject type system. Vala supports modern language features as the
following: Interfaces, Properties, Signals, Foreach, Lambda
expressions, Type inference for local variables, Generics, Non-null
types, Assisted memory management, Exception handling, Type modules
(Plugins)

Vala is designed to allow access to existing C libraries, especially
GObject-based libraries, without the need for runtime bindings. All
that is needed to use a library with Vala is an API file, containing
the class and method declarations in Vala syntax. Vala currently comes
with bindings for GLib and GTK+ and many others from the GNOME
Platform.

Using classes and methods written in Vala from an application written
in C is not difficult. The Vala library only has to install the
generated header files and C applications may then access the GObject-
based API of the Vala library as usual. It should also be easily
possible to write a bindings generator for access to Vala libraries
from applications written in e.g. C# as the Vala parser is written as
a library, so that all compile-time information is available when
generating a binding.

News
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 * Various improvements and bug fixes:
  - Mark defined constructors of abstract classes as protected
  - codegen:
    + Use guint to represent flags-enum in custom GMarshalFunc
    + Move disconnect error from signal-module to semantic-analyzer pass
    + Use unsigned default value for flags-enum
    + Always assign original variable when consuming instance to destroy [#781]
    + Resolve generics in sizeof-expression of parameter initializer
    + Move implicit GValue cast for comparison to BinaryExpression [#585063]
  - girparser: Create correct output in get_default_lower_case_suffix() [#778]
  - parser: Improve source_reference of expressions and statements
  - vala: Variadic parameters are not supported for async methods
  - vala: Allow assignment of 0U to enum types
  - vala: Use global CodeContext to retrieve root_symbol
  - libvaladoc:
    + Don't try to create a Content.ListItem when there is none
    + Handle missing Content.List.Bullet.ORDERED in switch
    + Handle missing Run.Style.NONE in switch

 * Bindings:
  - libgvc: Some additions and ownership/return-type fixes
  - glib-2.0: Don't annotate dedicated GLib.assert_*() with [Assert] [#769]
  - pango: Fix StringBuilder parameter of scan_word()
  - gobject-introspection-1.0: Fix TypeInfo and TypeTag method references [#778]
  - gstreamer-1.0: Fix TypeFind and TypeFindFactory method references [#778]


ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.40/vala-0.40.15.changes  (3.64K)

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