On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 11:14:46AM +0000, Philip Withnall wrote: > On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 10:57 +0000, Debarshi Ray wrote: > > 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. :-(
There is really no consistency at the moment. eg., see g_dbus_proxy_new and the code generated by gdbus-codegen. It differs from class to class and module to module. We can't break API, so atleast for future additions it would be good to use a better convention. Cheers, Debarshi _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
