Re: [Vala] Generic GPtrArray name

[tecywiz121 <tecywiz121 hotmail com>]

On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 13:35 -0700, Evan Nemerson wrote:
> With the improvements made to GPtrArray in GLib 2.22 (reference counting
> and the ability to specify a free function), it would be very useful to
> have a generic implementation available from Vala.
>
> In order to preserve backwards compatibility, we would like to keep
> GLib.PtrArray as it is and implement a generic version with a different
> name in Vala. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to decide on a name we
> like. Right now it seems like the two best choices are:
>
>       * GLib.GenericArray
>         Not the shortest name, but fairly descriptive of what it does.
>       * GLib.ArrayList
>         Short and consistent with the gee naming scheme. The problem is
>         projects using Gee would always have to type Gee.ArrayList or
>         GLib.ArrayList to disambiguate their choice.
>
> Does anyone have any good ideas? Or a preference between these two?
>
>
> -Evan

My vote is for GenericArray, just to avoid the clash with Gee

Sam