Re: gtkmm and C++0x

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

El Mar 30, 2010, a las 2:37 PM, Chris Vine  
<chris cvine freeserve co uk> escribió:

> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:19:44 +0200
> Murray Cumming <murrayc openismus com> wrote:
> > It would be nice if someone played with using these new features in
> > gtkmm. For intsance, create a git branch and try to replace use of
> > Glib::RefPtr<Thing> with auto wherever possible.
>
> You shouldn't need to change anything. Glib::RefPtr is only used by
> gtkmm as far as I am aware in return values and as function arguments.
> You should be able to use the auto keyword now with any gtkmm function
> returning a RefPtr, with gcc-4.3 and greater with the -std=gnu++0x  
> flag
> for the compiler. (Note I said "should" - I haven't tried it.)
>
> The auto keyword doesn't obviate the need to specify the function
> prototype: that is necessary for type inference to work.

What could be changed, as Murray already said, are the examples in the  
gtkmm-documentation module.  It could be worthwhile to see if the  
examples could be modified to use these upcoming C++ features.

--
José