On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 10:57 +0000, Debarshi Ray wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 10:47:37AM +0000, Philip Withnall wrote: > > I guess there are two approaches: making async APIs easier to use; and > > discouraging use of sync ones. I think the GAsyncResult framework we?ve > > got is pretty good, and I can?t think of a way to simplify it. > > One convention that I like is to use a _sync suffix for sync APIs, > instead of an _async suffix for async ones, because it lets me spot > synchronous calls with grep. > > A little sad that there are things like g_file_read that are sync, not > async.
We had a brief discussion about that at the DX hackfest, and I think the consensus was that the current naming scheme (no suffix = sync, ‘_async’ suffix = async) is unfortunate, but has to be kept for consistency reasons. It would be really confusing to switch to a new scheme while keeping the old one. :-( Philip
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