Re: [Vala] [Genie] multi-line structs

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 02:07 -0500, Arc Riley wrote:
> A syntax quirk that I found a bit obnoxious:
>
>   const entries : array of OptionEntry = { \
>     { "config", 'c', OptionFlags.IN_MAIN, \
>       OptionArg.FILENAME, ref config, \
>       "Use alternative configuration", "FILE" }, \
>     { "license", 'L', OptionFlags.IN_MAIN, \
>       OptionArg.NONE, ref license, \
>       "Print software license and exit", null }, \
>     { "version", 'V', OptionFlags.IN_MAIN, \
>       OptionArg.NONE, ref version, \
>       "Print version information and exit", null }, \
>     {null} }
>
> The \ shouldn't be needed inside {}, but valac reports an error of
> unexpected indentation(etc) without it.  Is there a way to do this without
> escaping the line breaks or can we get this improved for the next valac
> release?

Im working on improving that as it really is fugly like that - I hope to
have something committed this week

most likely we will allow lines ending in comma or open curly brace to
act as line continuations 

jamie