Re: signals versus vfuncs

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:22, Christof Petig wrote:
> oh, I see. I don't think that you have any choice (gtk+ does not provide 
> vfunc arg specifications at runtime). But you might compile in 
> *_vfuncs.def and use that.

that's the main problem. without signals we have to add specific
code/info for each and every situation. with signals it's all magic
(provided that they're done right and have the correct parameter types.)
we (and by we i mean muppet) have purposed (and even somewhat
implemented) solutions for the situation, but they are at best hacks
that don't have really to be, if there were signals for us to connect to
as most older code seems to have done. bascially i think muppet is
looking for 'the reason' why there seems to have been a shift in the way
things where done, and to say that it makes bindings much harder to do
and error prone.

-rm