Re: gtk2-perl / arguments of callbacks

[Janne Morén <jan moren lucs lu se>]

On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 17:04, Steve Fox wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 03:57, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
> > I think this is not so logical, and confusing. What do you think
> > of changing that to restore a more-like-gtk behaviour?
>
> Just a beginning developer here, but from a learning point of view, I
> would like to see it kept as much like GTK+ as possible. Unless there
> are some *very* dedicated documenters and excellent documentation, this
> would have confused me greatly (I'm only using GTK+-1 at the moment).
> I've been using the C API documentation very heavily.

I agree on that. The reasons for changing such a thing from the
C-version should be _very_ compelling in order to motivate a change that
absolutely will confuse a lot of people. Even with stellar documentation
and free stickers to all developers reminding them of this change,
people will do it wrong and will get frustrated as a result.


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