On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 11:12:28 +0000 Tom Hacohen <t...@osg.samsung.com> wrote:
> On 01/03/16 10:52, David Seikel wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:05:06 +0000 Tom Hacohen <t...@osg.samsung.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> The Eo syntax is going to be changing once more, and this time, I
> >> really think/hope it'll be the last time. We plan on stabilizing Eo
> >> and all of the functions on top of it in the next few months, so
> >> that doesn't leave us much more time to change it again. :)
> >>
> >> These changes will remove the need for the eo_do family of
> >> functions. Functions will now look like normal C functions (which
> >> they are). There are many benefits to that, and we have many cool
> >> new ideas.
> >
> > "The new proposed API makes Eo calls look like normal C functions
> > (they are in fact normal c functions),"
> >
> > I thought one of the purposes of eo_do() was to only have one
> > function call + object pointer pass to do several things at once on
> > that object? I've been making a bit of use out of that,
> > rearranging code a little sometimes to take advantage of it. I
> > even thought eo_do() was a good syntax. It works a bit differently
> > to normal function calls, it should look different. Less
> > repetitive typing of my_fancy_object_name.
>
> Yes, but that purpose has been costing us too much. First of all, it
> was slower, and second of all, it forced us to resort to hacks like
> eo_do_ret. The syntax was confusing for some people (and IDEs), and
> now that I've actually reviewed the usage across the EFL it has been
> abused.
Fair enough.
> As for "my_fance_object_name", I can create a macro for you that
> using it will look something like:
>
> eo_block(your_fancy_object_name)
> {
> efl_text_set(e, "bla");
> foo_do(e);
> }
>
> This should solve your long names issue with our new API...
Something like that could work.
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