Re: Stealing a good idea from Gtk#

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis gmx de>]

* muppet <scott asofyet org> [2004-09-27 03:46]:
> in defense of the += operator, the += makes sense because you
> can connect any number of handlers to a signal, while = implies
> a Highlander nature ("there can be only one!").

I know. Just deciding that "+= means you can ``add'' more than
one signal handler" smells like overloading-because-I-can,
though.

> how would you handle variants like connect-after and user data?

connect-after could simply be taken care of using an extra, near-
identical SIGNAL::AFTER package.

User data would be rather more tricky.. in Gtk# you're passing in
an object, not merely a coderef, so it's not a problem. Of
course, in a language that has closures, you don't *need* to be
able to pass user data..

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle
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