On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:15 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 02:22:42PM +0100, Tom Hacohen wrote:
>> On 23/08/16 14:17, [email protected] 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 :-)
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