On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 23:34 +0100, Wolfgang Schlichtner wrote:
Hi,
i noticed that some methods/properties are implemented for some integral
types but aren't for others, see the following table:
u u u u
s s u u i i i i i i
h h u l l i i n n n n n n
o o i i o o n n t t t t t t
r r n n n n t t 1 1 3 3 6 6
t t t t g g 8 8 6 6 2 2 4 4
object ─────────┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼──
to_string + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
clamp + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
abs o + o + o o o o + o
to_big_endian + + + + o o + + + + + +
to_little_endian + + + + o o + + + + + +
swap_big_endian_pdp o o + +
swap_little_endian_pdp o o + +
swap_little_endian_big_endian o o + + +
to_pointer + +
class ──────────┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼──
MIN + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
MAX + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
min + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
max + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
FORMAT + + + + + +
FORMAT_MODIFIER + + + + + +
parse + + + +
try_parse + +
from_big_endian + + + + o o + + + + + +
from_little_endian + + + + o o + + + + + +
to_network o o + +
from_network o o + +
this seems especially wrong to me for:
abs(), parse() and try_parse()
am i missing something? is this by intention?
I wouldn't say it's intentional so much as a result of missing functionality at the C level, though in some cases it may just be missing bindings. If you want to try to fill in the missing I'm definitely willing to accept patches, though it will likely involve wrapper methods which call the relevant functions on wider types then casts the result. BTW, class methods in Vala (and GObject) are something different. Better terminology would be "instance" and "static". -Evan
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