Re: [Vala] Possible bug in naming conflicts?

["Michael B. Trausch" <mike trausch us>]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:50:40 +0100
Andrea Bolognani <eof kiyuko org> wrote:

> There would be, in fact, another option, perhaps the best one: change
> the convention on the C side to use get_gtype() instead of get_type(),
> which would make sense since the returned object is a GType and
> get_type() is a really generic name.
>
> This, of course, cannot be achieved without breaking *every library*
> based on GObject, so I'm not sure the gain would be worth the effort.

Yeah, that would be a bad thing.  It might become feasible if the
majority of future GNOME/GLib/GTK/etc. system and application
development were to move to Vala, but I'd think that probably doing
some sort of method name mangling (just not to the extent that C++
does) would be best.

> P.S. The message quoted by Michael was supposed to go to the list, but
>      I messed up the recipients.

I guessed that; your mail was the second one that came to me that way.
I am guessing that maybe something about the way posts coming from
GMANE show up on-list maybe causes the message's reply-to to be
abnormal?

        --- Mike

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