Re: [Vala] Is there an Any type in vala?

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 03:39 -0400, Yu Feng wrote:
> The need for an 'Any' type emerges in the following context:
>
>
> Object o = new Object();
> Object o1 = new Object();
> string s = "string"
> o.set_data("data", o1);
> o.set_data("string", s);
>
> set_data is currently declared as 
> set_data(string, void *);

We should bind g_object_set_data as a generic method

[CCode (cname = "g_object_set_data_full")]
public void set_data<G> (string key, G# data);

However, we don't support generic methods in Vala, yet.

Jürg