On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Tom Hacohen <t...@osg.samsung.com> 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 ?
take a shorter one, would "efl_o" be an option? At least for the macro, it adds a lot to already long `efl_add()` lines due C lack of namespace that forces us to repeat them... > 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 guess he meant because other languages use "self" or "this" only inside methods... so it would match what we call "Eo *obj" in our generated eolian files... while there it's meant to be used from outside, from the user that is creating the object. > 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. this is true :-) > As I said though, I don't really care either way, though I think > efl_self is much better than efl_add_obj/object. indeed, they are too long. -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri -------------------------------------- Mobile: +55 (16) 99354-9890 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
