Re: [Vala] Static array initialization

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Don, 2007-03-08 at 20:11 -0600, Cayle Graumann wrote:
> On 3/8/07, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
> > I'm in fact currently implementing a generic ArrayList class for Vala
> > that does exactly that. I've to fix some bugs in the compiler first to
> > get this nicely integrated, though. If you're interested in that
> > library, I'll cc you when I have some experimental version ready.
>
> I wasn't thinking of resizing every time one by one, but in fairly
> sizeable chunks of 512 or 1024 int - so using resize may actually work
> for me.  I'll just have to see.  I'd like to see your ArrayList
> implentation when you done.  If your wondering what I'm working on - I
> am reimplementing the speedy non-SAX XML parser Vtd-Xml from
> ximpleware.  There is a java and a C# implementation.  They also have
> a C version, however it uses an exception library based on
> preprocessor macros.  The Vala implementation will use signals rather
> than exceptions.

That sounds interesting, I'd really like a nice XML library for Vala. We
will add syntax support for GError-based exception handling but we're
not working on it yet, so it won't be ready anytime soon.

I will keep you posted regarding the ArrayList class.

Jürg