Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading.

2010-01-12 Thread Sam Liddicott
I meant that these would be mandatory only for 2nd and subsequent declarations. Sam -Original Message- From: Sam Liddicott s...@liddicott.com Sent: 12 January 2010 07:25 To: Jiří Zárevúcky zarevucky.j...@gmail.com; Fabzter fabos...@gmail.com Cc: vala-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Vala]

Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading.

2010-01-12 Thread Jiří Zárevúcky
Sam Liddicott píše v Út 12. 01. 2010 v 07:25 +: Overloading could easily be supported with mandatory cname or csuffix attributes; that an explicit name needs to be given for C is no reason that it needs to be given for vala which could do regular overloading. I think it ought to be

Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading.

2010-01-12 Thread Sam Liddicott
* Jiří Zárevúcky wrote, On 12/01/10 14:43: Sam Liddicott píše v Út 12. 01. 2010 v 07:25 +: Overloading could easily be supported with mandatory cname or csuffix attributes; that an explicit name needs to be given for C is no reason that it needs to be given for vala which could do

Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading.

2010-01-12 Thread Fabien CELLIER
Hi, IMHO overloading is a good feature for maintenance and backward compatibility but it should follow some rules in order to avoid bad impact in C code , for example (with convention over configuration): vala code void show(){...} void show(string label){...} C code void show{} void

Re: [Vala] Support for method overloading.

2010-01-12 Thread Jiří Zárevúcky
Sam Liddicott píše v Út 12. 01. 2010 v 16:04 +: * Jiří Zárevúcky wrote, On 12/01/10 14:43: Sam Liddicott píše v Út 12. 01. 2010 v 07:25 +: Overloading could easily be supported with mandatory cname or csuffix attributes; that an explicit name needs to be given for C is no

Re: [Vala] musicbrainz vapi

2010-01-12 Thread Victor Manuel Jáquez Leal
Finally got an usable vapi for libmusicbrainz3: http://gitorious.org/vjaquez-misc/mcdripper/blobs/master/libmusicbrainz3.vapi In the repository are a couple of tests. Cheers, vmjl 2010/1/9 Victor Manuel Jáquez Leal cey...@gmail.com: Hi, After playing with libmusicbrainz I switched to

Re: [Vala] Question about namespaces..

2010-01-12 Thread Jan Hudec
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 12:22:49 -0700, Shawn Ferris wrote: On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 07:51 +0100, Jan Hudec wrote: It already exists. It's called a class! Of course I know what a class is, and I understand (mostly) what they're capable of. The problem with a separate class to manage the