Re: [Vala] Class and interface names can be "too short"?

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi Boris,

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 10:16 +0200, boris kolar wrote:

> I just noted an error stating that class name was too short (less than
> 3 characters). After taking a look at the source, it seems that
> interfaces have the same restriction. This goes strongly against my
> "libertarian" sense that all needless restrictions should be
> removed ;) Is there a good reason for this restriction? If not (or not
> always), I propose modification of valagtypemodule.vala and allowing
> arbitrary length identifiers (hint: search for "too short").

I'm not familiar with the reasoning behind the restriction, however,
it's a limit of GObject, not a limit of Vala. We just report the error
in Vala to avoid a runtime error from GObject later on.

Jürg