On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 02:22:42PM +0100, Tom Hacohen wrote: > On 23/08/16 14:17, marcel-hollerb...@t-online.de wrote: > > Hello, > > > > i am not so happy with the name efl_self. > > > > Reason for that is that "self" is in the context of other languages > > completly different compared to our use in efl_add. > > People got confused by it, and used it wrong (We just had the case on irc). > > And even if they get a error and see pretty quick that this will not > > work, they still think of the usage of self from other languages. > > > > So I would like to propose a name like efl_add_object, efl_add_obj, > > efl_added which really tells this only makes sense with efl_add, > > and does not use a keyword which is used different in other languages. > > > > Objections / Input ? > > > > I don't really care one way or the other, but just going to say what I > said before on IRC so both side of the argument are represented: > > Our usage of "self" is not completely different to other languages. We > use it to mean "self" just like every other language, but our scope > where it's allowed is smaller, only in eo_add().
I think the more dangerous part here is that eo_add(XYZ_CLASS, parent, func_set(efl_self)); does not really look like opening up "a new" scope, If you dont really know what eo_add is doing, then it looks like the result of func_set is passed in as a argument to efl_add. So efl_self does not really describe what it really is. Sure you will learn it, you will see it, earlier or later, but why making it hard to do/learn instead of just call it efl_added (or smth. like that) where it is more obvious to people that this is NOT what self is like in other languages. > > People will get confused once, and then when they see it doesn't work > will hopefully read the docs/ask if not just understand on their own. > Amount of time spent per person: 1 minute in a lifetime (unlikely anyone > will repeat this twice). Literally not worth adding an extra letter to > type/read for. > > As I said though, I don't really care either way, though I think > efl_self is much better than efl_add_obj/object. > > -- > Tom. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
