undocumented inconsistency in call signatures (was Re: timeouts)
- From: Chas Owens <alas widomaker com>
- To: gtk-perl mailing list <gtk-perl-list gnome org>
- Subject: undocumented inconsistency in call signatures (was Re: timeouts)
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:07:29 -0400 (EDT)
I just looked at the bindings to answer a question and notice an undocumented
inconsistency between Gtk2-Perl and C function reference. We are using one
function -- g_timeout_add -- instead of two -- g_timeout_add and
g_timeout_add_full. This can cause confusion (as it did briefly for me) when
you want to set the priority of a timeout to something other than the default
piority. I am not certain, but I think (Gtk-Perl did it this way) it could also
cause confusion for a person trying to pass a list into his or her timeout:
What is intended:
Glib::Timeout->add(
500, #every half second (about)
\&sub, #execute this subrouting
3000, 4000, 6000 #with these args in @_
);
What happens:
Glib::Timeout->add(
500, #every half second (about)
\&sub, #execute this subrouting
3000, #with this arg in $_[1]
4000, #at priority 4000 (really, really low)
6000 #ignored
);
What the person should currently do:
Glib::Timeout->add(
500, #every half second (about)
\&sub, #execute this subrouting
[ 3000, 4000, 6000 ] #with these args in @{$_[0]}
);
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