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

[Jan Hudec <bulb ucw cz>]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 22:32:48 +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> 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.

Ability to override the automagic does make sense. But this rule should cover
more cases than the _async suffix one, no?

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                                                 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb ucw cz>