Re: [gtk-list] Re: Macros vs functions

[Arnaud Charlet <charlet ACT-Europe FR>]

> > As another writer of a GTK+ high-level language binding, I agree
> > completely.  When I read the GTK+ docs, they stated that part of the
> > intent was to make it easy to write high-level bindings.  Macros are
> > the antithesis of language bindings, and have caused me no end of pain
> > with other graphical toolkits.  My vote is to replace ALL macros with
> > equivalent functions, or at least supply equivalent functions for all
> > macros, so that the choice is available to the programmer.  This
> > implies a macro naming convention that makes it obvious whether the
> > construct is a macro or a function call.
> 
> As yet another writer of a GTK+ high-level language binding (GtkAda,
> http://ada.eu.org/gtkada/), I agree that having the corresponding "callable"
> functions would be great.
> 
> Usually (see for example the Xlib) what is done is both a macro for efficiency
> purposes, and a corresponding function, so my vote for having both.

Did the authors make a decision on this topic ? Will it be available for Gtk
1.4 ?

Arno