On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:15 AM, <marcel-hollerb...@t-online.de> wrote: > 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.
thinking about opening scope... why not change it completely, like: success = efl_add(var, class, ...); then: efl_add(o, cls, method(o)); would just work :-) -- 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