Re: [Vala] embedding c code snippet in vala source.

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 05:09 -0400, Yu Feng wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 10:44 +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> > Maybe I'm just missing an interesting use case, however, I currently
> > fail to see where the snippet approach makes it more comfortable to
> > write or use bindings. Can you provide examples where you think that it
> > makes more sense to handle it in a snippet instead of the compiler code?
> > I'm not convinced by the g_strv_length example as this would clutter the
> > bindings too much, in my opinion.
>
> Again it is for rare cases. I am thinking hard to make the snipples
> working well, and I'll collect more cases later. I don't expect there to
> be much though. Should it be much fewer than [NoArrayLength] stuff.

Ok, as you agree that the null-terminated arrays should be handled, your
g_strv_length example is not a real use case for the snippet support.
Can you provide a concrete example where you think it makes more sense
to use a CCode snippet than anything else?

> BTW: I found a way to kill the vast number static wrappers in DBus
> dynamic methods. File a new bug?

Sure.

Cheers,
Jürg