Re: [Vala] Genie and extra '\n' in some strings

[Steven Oliver <oliver steven gmail com>]

Since Genie imitates Python perhaps it does it because Python does it in
most cases. See this page:
http://docs.python.org/reference/simple_stmts.html#print

Steven N. Oliver


On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Piotr Borkowski <rezyder gmail com> wrote:

> Thank you for your reply, Abderrahim.
>
> > As you can see, in both cases the newline is added to a print'ed string,
> > so I guess it is intentional.
>
> I think this is intentional, but I do not understand why it has been
> applied. This seems unnecessary.
>
> After compiling the functional equivalent of that program in Vala,
> such additions do not occur.
>
> Programs in C are the same except those strange extras in Genie version.
>
>
> // hello.vala
> public static void main (string[] args)
> {
>       var caption = "Hello World!\n";
>       var hello = new HelloWorld ();
>       var message = hello.say (caption);
>       print ("Message: %s\n", message);
> }
>
> class HelloWorld : Object
> {
>       public string say (string greeting)
>       {
>               print (greeting);
>               return "OK";
>       }
> }
>
>
> // hello.c - vala version
>
> ...
>
> void _vala_main (gchar** args, int args_length1) {
>       gchar* _tmp0_;
>       gchar* caption;
>       HelloWorld* _tmp1_;
>       HelloWorld* hello;
>       gchar* _tmp2_ = NULL;
>       gchar* message;
>       _tmp0_ = g_strdup ("Hello World!\n");
>       caption = _tmp0_;
>       _tmp1_ = hello_world_new ();
>       hello = _tmp1_;
>       _tmp2_ = hello_world_say (hello, caption);
>       message = _tmp2_;
>        g_print ("Message: %s\n", message);
>        _g_free0 (message);
>       _g_object_unref0 (hello);
>       _g_free0 (caption);
> }
>
> ...
>
> gchar* hello_world_say (HelloWorld* self, const gchar* greeting) {
>       gchar* result = NULL;
>       const gchar* _tmp0_;
>       gchar* _tmp1_;
>        g_return_val_if_fail (self != NULL, NULL);
>       g_return_val_if_fail (greeting != NULL, NULL);
>       _tmp0_ = greeting;
>        g_print ("%s", _tmp0_);
>       _tmp1_ = g_strdup ("OK");
>       result = _tmp1_;
>       return result;
> }
>
> ...
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