Re: [Vala] Legacy Bindings: "Inject" & operator?

[Al Thomas <astavale yahoo co uk>]

    > On Thursday, 1 March 2018, 07:55:19 GMT, Dr. Michael Lauer <mickey vanille de> wrote:  
> I pondered whether it would be helpful to add a to_string() method to make
> this a bit more convenient.

Yes, to my mind to_string() should be used more in bindings. It makes it much easier to use instring 
templates, etc.

> This doesn’t work though, since time_t is bounds as IntegerType, hence the compiler bails out> Independent 
> of whether this patch can make it to glib-2.0.vapi or not, I wonder> whether there is a CCode attribute 
> that could make this happen without introducing
> a vala helper method.

There are CCode attributes type and type_cname listed at 
http://www.vala-project.org/doc/vala/Attributes.html#CCode_Attribute
May be they are relevant.
Al