Re: RE : [Glade-devel] Re: glade code generation

[Joaquin Cuenca Abela <e98cuenc free fr>]

On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:01, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:26, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
> > Murray wrote:
> > >
> > > > but in fact, you can't do much better if you generate code.
> > > 
> > > C++ has the concept of inheritance. glademm generates only 
> > > base classes.
> > > User-written code is in user-written derived classes.
> > 
> > That's irrelevant.  The question is: what happens when the user edits
> > code that he shouldn't edit and later it regenerates this code?
> 
> He shouldn't. He doesn't have any need to.

In the same sense that when you do a singleton the user should use a
::getInstance method, but you still make the constructors private.  Just
to be sure.

There is an important difference between "he shouldn't" and "he can't".

Cheers,




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