Re: [Vala] inline C

["Levi Bard" <taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak gmail com>]

> > > You can currently get the same effect by using extern keyword for c
> > > functions in an included c file (you can pass a .c file to valac for
> > > this purpose)
> > [...]
>
> Vala is not a preprocessor for gcc, although I'm sure many people look
> at it this way.
> [...]
> Personally, I rather have limited
> functionality that works and is not expected to change as opposed to
> having a bunch of sugars that work in most cases and are removed/limited
> when proven to fail otherwise. The vala concept works fine, so I think
> it would better to target 1.0-stable and fix the relevant blocking bugs
> instead.

I'm in full agreement with this.
There is no reason for ugly inline C blocks when it is so easy to
either compile C code along with Vala code or to utilize C libraries
from Vala code.
I also agree with Yu Feng that the detraction from understandability
outweighs any added convenience.

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