Hey k-s, On 20 December 2016 at 20:03, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Jean-Philippe André <j...@videolan.org> > wrote: > > On 19 December 2016 at 21:10, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri < > barbi...@gmail.com> > > While these are nice to be "class methods" since one could get these > >> to work with subclasses, they are often used with the original class. > >> Then my request is to either to introduce a "staticmethod" OR to use > >> some macro trick to count the number of parameters and pass the class > >> automatically when omitted or generate 2 functions, one with class and > >> another without (one could be an actual function, while the other just > >> a macro). > >> > >> End goal is to make these look more like: > >> > >> efl_net_ip_address_create(1234, "127.0.0.1"); > > > > > > A macro could be nice. We still need @class functions to work with other > > classes than the one that declares the method. Each class can then have > its > > own implementation of the common @class function. Should all sub > > implementations also provide a macro, then? > > that's a neat idea, to generate the macros with the new name if > "implements" > > but if we do a macro that counts the number of parameters and if no > class is given it would assume the default class (base), that's easier > to use. > I'm a bit worried about the naming scheme for those macros, as they would then have to merge a full method name (eg. my_first_class_func) and the implementing class name (eg. my_other_class). I honestly didn't really think of this idea as very neat because of this ;) But maybe you have a good idea? As you may know I've used such a factory for input events, and the syntax is a bit crappy (but it returns the private data, which is convenient for internal code). -- Jean-Philippe André ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/intel _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
