Re: [Vala] readline from a FileStream?

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 11:10 +0200, Frederik wrote:
> I have filed a bug report / feature request:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538405
>
> To make clear what you're currently doing I have slightly modified your
> code. Your code works as long as you won't do any other operation
> than assignment on 'next_line'. Perhaps valac should warn when using an
> existing type name as a generic type placeholder.
>
> PS: If you use a newer version of Vala/libgee you'll have to mark the
> return type of Iterable.get() as nullable:
>
> public G? get() { ... }

yeah this is neat - it would be nice once that bug is fixed to get this
into libgee along with the other iterables (hopefully Juerg agrees?)

btw i would name the class TextFile rather than FileIter and limit it to
text based files as I dont think you would want to iterate over binary
files

jamie