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

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 14:39 +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 08:25:06 -0500, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > 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 
>
> The python way is to ignore all line-breaks when any kind of parenthesis ((),
> [] or {}) is open. IMO it would be the sanest one and cover most cases.

I have now implemented the python way in master (stuff in parens and
braces may straddle multiple lines) - please verify it works as you now
expect

jamie