Re: Plans for gnome-vfs replacement

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

On Qua, 2006-09-20 at 13:52 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 12:55 +0200, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 12:31 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 
> > > Here is my current GInputStream:
> > 
> > very nice. Comments below.
> > 
> > > 
> > > struct _GInputStreamClass
> > > {
> > >   GObjectClass parent_class;
> > > 
> > >   /* Sync ops: */
> > >   
> > 
> > Do you dislike the idea of moving the GError as a member of the
> > GInputStream instance ?
> 
> Its very uncommon, I'm not sure people will expect that. It will also
> break things from language mappings that handle GErrors in a special way
> (say, as an exception).

  Even from C, it "hides" the error, making programmers less likely to
correctly realize they need to handle errors.  Moreover, having a shared
GError per object makes it impossible to ever make the API thread-safe.

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Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
<gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net>
The universe is always one step beyond logic.