----- Original Message ----
From: Alexander Bokovoy <ab altlinux org>
To: Mihail Naydenov <mlists ymail com>
Cc: vala <vala-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, September 8, 2008 12:04:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Vala] [Bindings] Few quick questions about glib
2008/9/7 Mihail Naydenov <
mlists ymail com>:
> I was really asking from usability perspective, because after few
> unsuccessful attempts to use g_strdup_printf equivalent in vala, I had to
> google only to find out:
>
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/vala-list/2006-September/000668.html>
> ...but
> "%s: %d".printf ("Hello", 5)
> is some weird, weird stuff !
This is classical Smalltalkish way of "everything is an object". You
may find the same idiom in Ruby as well. Quite handy and expressive
overall.
I find Vala quite good in stressing out typical object-oriented
paradigm features from underlying "non-object" POSIX API (as people
tend to approach it).
--
/ Alexander Bokovoy
Im glad, you guys like
that usage, but its alien to both glib and c# - the main targest of vala. I do not suggest to trow it away (I begin to like it too), just to add some more conventional usages.
that's all
MihailNajdenov
