Re: [cairo] Re: cairomm API/ABI freeze?

[Rick L Vinyard Jr <rvinyard cs nmsu edu>]

Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> What about the following?
> Cairo::Context::begin_new_path()
> Cairo::Context::begin_new_sub_path()
>
> Advantages:
> - retains a pretty close mapping to the C cairo functions
> - retains an obvious parallellism between the two functions
> - prefix 'begin_' makes it clear that we're not using 'new' in the C++ 
> sense
>
> Disadvantages:
> - ?
>
> Thoughts? opinions? alternate suggestions?
Sounds good. The 'begin_new_' prefix removes the C++ new operator 
confusion that I think 'new_' alone presents.