Re: [PATCH] (u)int64 + string value transforms

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Andy Wingo wrote:

> > as an aside, the ->string conversions shouldn't really be used in production
> > code, they are more of a convenience variant for debugging purposes and could
> > possibly change.

> the point that "they could change" would be mitigated if
> destringify(stringify(foo)) could be assured to be equal to foo by glib.

not if you're relying on the transform functions to perform part of your
serializers/parsers work. this would actually break your file format.

> but if this is not the case, and my string-> routines are not wanted
> in glib, please note the debugging nature of the standard string value
> transforms in the docs, when they get written.

yep, i added an appropriate note recently.

> 
> wingo.

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