Re: [Vala] Libgee's Roadmap proposal

[Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com>]

2009/7/21 Didier "Ptitjes" <ptitjes free fr>:
> Hi list,
>
> Didier "Ptitjes" wrote:
> > Open questions:
>
> I'd like to add some more ideas:
>  - Support for disengageable collection change events

Sounds interesting, but I'm not sure about a real value.

>  - Support for collection updatable views (aka wrappers)
>  - With events and views, we gain a clean implementation way for sorted
> list views

I don't understand what you mean. Could you explain a bit more?

>  - Collection shuffling

I suppose this would be useful only in very specific applications.

>  - Collection reversing

Definitely a must-have.

>  - Reversed iterations

The same here.

>  - Collection-based addition|removal (add_all, remove_all, retain_all)
>  - ^^^ Same for maps (set_all)

Maybe we could generalize it a bit and implement some basic set of set
operation (no pun intended). Union, intersection, difference, etc. In
any case, it has to be implemented on the level of Collection
interface.