Re: Proposal for a collection API in glib



Am Donnerstag, den 17.07.2008, 14:23 -0400 schrieb Havoc Pennington:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be> wrote:
> > You could make a GLib.Iterator that uses gobject-introspection, but I
> > don't think you want to make gobject-introspection the one thing
> > everybody who wants to expose collections in his API has to use and
> > learn.
> 
> I didn't mean that - I meant if you exposed collections you'd use
> GList or whatever, and g-i would know that it was a "GList of Foo",
> and g-i would generate an iterator around the list based on that. Then
> users of the g-i API for language bindings would see only the
> iterator.

Well, I am doing some refactoring right now and during this process it
would be quite helpful if we'd have something better than GList: It
would be really helpful if our GLists would express its element type.

Maybe we can figure out how to do this in a sane way for GTK3?

Ciao,
Mathias
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