Re: GdkRectangle, again

[Chas Owens <alas wilma widomaker com>]

On 29 Apr 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:

> "muppet" <scott asofyet org> writes:
>
> > old gtk-perl treated GdkRectangle as a 4-element list in perl.  this made it
> > very easy to manipulate the contents of the rectangle in perl, and i switched
> > to this because dealing with a boxed type from perl via member accessor
> > functions is clumsy.
>
> I personally favored the orthogonality of methods in gtk2-perl,
> and that's why we are (were?) using GdkRectangle like all other
> Boxed types, with methods to access members. E.g.:
>
>   $pixmap->draw_rectangle ($gc, TRUE,
>                            $update_rect->x,
>                            $update_rect->y,
>                            $update_rect->width,
>                            $update_rect->height);
>
> E.g. even more readable than hash ref thing. There's also
> ->values so that you can do things like:
>
> my (undef, undef, $w, $h) = $update_rect->values;
>
>
> Just my personal point of view, of course.
>
> --
> Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

I think I have to vote this way as well.  Besides it will look really silly in Perl 6 to say

$pixmap->draw_rectangle (
        $gc,
        TRUE,
        $update_rect.{x},
        $update_rect.{y},
        $update_rect.{width},
        $update_rect.{height}
);

instead of

$pixmap->draw_rectangle (
        $gc,
        TRUE,
        $update_rect.x,
        $update_rect.y,
        $update_rect.width,
        $update_rect.height
);