On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:07:53 -0500 "Michael B. Trausch" <mike trausch us> wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:50:40 +0100 Andrea Bolognani <eof kiyuko org> wrote: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.
Not necessarily. Changing GLib (in a non backward-compatible way) and updating all the depending libraries would be enough. But, as you can see, it would be *a lot* of work to achieve an arguably small benefit. I would love be able to change the get_value() methods in a library I maintain to a more suitable get_type(), but if that means breaking the entire GNOME stack... I'll live with that ;)
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?
I'm not sure about the reason, but when I reply to one of your messages your address instead of the ML one is listed in the To: field. -- Andrea Bolognani <eof kiyuko org> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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