Re: [Vala] Libgee problem

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

I wrote that page in the wiki to try to maintain a TODO list for the 
hackaton.
But it will be good to use it for other purposes too

 http://live.gnome.org/Vala/TODO

Magentus wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:26:04 -0500, 
> Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com> wrote:
>
>   
> > > I haven't really looked at genie...  But I'm curious, where these
> > > differences come in, what exactly is genie's relationship to vala?
> > > I'd sort of assumed it was just an alternative source file parser
> > > with the same compiler back-end.  
> > >       
> > it is only at the parser level that it is different. We simply add in
> > the default string hash if the parsed key is a string, or int hash if
> > int or direct address for everything else. Of course the user can
> > still override these defaults and provide hash functions themselves
> > (EG if you wanted to make the string hash function case insensitive)
> > but for most cases the defaults are fine so Genie avoids the extra
> > tedious coding that you currently have to do in vala when you dont
> > require custom hashes
> >     
>
> Cool...  So I do have a clue after all.
>
>
> Anyone know if it's on the Vala todo list at all...?  Equality testing,
> hashing, and "to string" for every class, is a mighty handy thing.
> I'm guessing it'd require some sort of compile-time "if method exists"
> operator, though, so probably not.
>
> On the other hand, Vala adds an object for int, and GValue (I think it
> was) already has support for plugging in converters for types.  Would
> it be possible to generalise the idea, and have Hash (and friends)
> attempt to look up the appropriate hash/equality function if it's not
> explicitly given one?
>
> Someone's probably already thought of all this, in which case just
> ignore me.  :)
>
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