Re: [Vala] [RFC, PATCH] add async keyword to vapigen

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 09:23 +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 22:21:36 +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > Or would it be better to make the parser recognize asynchronous
> > functions that don't end in _async?
>
> An async function can be recognized by having a GAsyncReadyCallback argument
> next to last and void * last (that's what vala expects from an async
> function).  So it could probably be detected only by that (and not look at
> "_async" suffix at all except to strip it).

Unfortunately, there are a few exceptions to that. An attribute sounds
safer for now.

Jürg