Re: [Vala] Scoping error in public constant members

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi Cayle,

On Mit, 2006-08-30 at 22:50 -0500, Cayle Graumann wrote:
>         I have found another unexpected error.  The following code
> works correctly if Error3a and Error3b are in the same file, but if
> you separate them into different files, the vala compiler will compile
> them properly, however the C compilation step will complain about
> ERROR3_CONSTANT_HOLDER1_X not being defined in the second file.
> Looking at the C code generated by vala, you have defined public const
> variables as being static variables in the resulting C file, thus it's
> scope is not visible outside the c file.   Perhaps instead of being
> static, they should be global variables and declared as extern in the
> resulting c header file.  The current method would still be
> appropriate for private const variables. 

Or maybe keep them static but just put public constants in the c header
file. That should use less memory or am I mistaken here?

Jürg