Re: [Vala] difference between using IntegerType and inheriting

[Andre Masella <andre masella name>]

Silly question: why do you want to be an integer?

Most atom types are not really integers at all. I mean, given Atom a and
Atom b, what does a+1 mean? a+b? max(a, b)? a * b? Usually, those answers
are non-sense. Most of the methods you would inherit from the base numeric
type are not helpful. You may just want:

[SimpleType]
[CCode (cname = "c_name", has_type_id = false)]
public struct StructName {
  public string to_string () { return ((uint32)this).to_string (); }
}


On 6 January 2014 03:00, rastersoft <raster rastersoft com> wrote:

> My question, really, is which one is the best to define in a VAPI file a
> typedef. This is: if I have in C
>
>     #typedef uint32_t xcb_atom_t;
>
>
> is better to define it as:
>
>     [SimpleType]
>     [IntegerType (rank = 9)]
>     [CCode (cname = "xcb_atom_t", has_type_id = false)]
>     public struct Atom {
>     }
>
> or as:
>
>     [SimpleType]
>     [CCode (cname = "xcb_atom_t", has_type_id = false)]
>     public struct Atom : uint32 {
>     }
>
>
> ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> El 05/01/14 22:39, Luca Bruno escribió:
>
> > You inherit all the methods from uint32? ;)
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:51 PM, rastersoft <raster rastersoft com> wrote:
> >
> >  Hi again:
> > > Another doubt I have is: what is the difference between doing:
> > >
> > >      [SimpleType]
> > >      [IntegerType (rank = 9)]
> > >      [CCode (cname = "c_name", has_type_id = false)]
> > >      public struct StructName {
> > >      }
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > >      [SimpleType]
> > >      [CCode (cname = "c_name", has_type_id = false)]
> > >      public struct StructName : uint32 {
> > >      }
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
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