Re: [xs] notebook problem

[Joe Smith <jes martnet com>]

Ross McFarland wrote:
> Chas Owens wrote:
> > I think there is a need for Gtk2::Perlish.  ...
>
> obviously there's nothing stopping people from doing such things. personally i
> would prefer to have a complete (or reasonably so) c->perl mapping and then
> consider the possiblility of such extensions. ...

FWIW, I actually like Ross' (and therefore Chas' also) suggestion best.

I'd like to see a Perl wrapper that sticks very close to C, and then 
something more Perlish on top.

Of the things I like least about gtk, the top one is its verbosity.  I 
mean it's really painful to read gtk code.  A good Perlish layer could 
go a long way to alleviate that.

If it was a completely separate layer though, is to possible to 
transparently overlay, e.g., the 'notebook_append' function with a new 
(Perl) function of the same name?  If you can (and given enough magic 
Perl can do *anything*), is it wise to do so?

Thanks for all the good work!  I'm looking forward to getting back into 
coding with the new wrapper.

<Joe