Re: [Vala] [ANNOUNCE] Vala 0.7.9 - Compiler for the GObject type system

Jürg Billeter wrote: We are pleased to announce version 0.7.9 of Vala, a compiler for the GObject type system. IMHO it would be appropriate to update the roadmap as well, because right now it is outdated. http://live.gnome.org/Vala/RoadMap By the way, congrats on the new version, the wo

[Vala] Genie in Wikipedia

I have created a new entry for Genie in Wikipedia, because I believe this language already has enough notability as a dialect of Vala, which is well-known. However, the article is still in unreviewed state because it lacks proper

Re: [Vala] A few questions

Jamie McCracken wrote: [indent=2] init string.join (",",\ "item1", \ "item2") the backslash must be the last character on the line That's odd, I tried to compile a similar example from Windows and the compiler raised a syntax error, I was using Vala 0.78

Re: [Vala] A few questions

Abderrahim Kitouni wrote: >> [indent=2] >> const MAXVALUE: int = 50 >> init >> myarray : array of int = {1..MAXVALUE} >> >> Isn't there a similar way to declare an array using only minimum and maximum >> values? > > No, arrays indices always start from 0, so you just pass the length, e.g. > myarr

[Vala] A few questions

Hello, I have recently found Vala/Genie, and I think this is a very interesting project. Although I have learned some Java and can more or less understand Vala, I find Genie more attractive because the syntax is much simpler and IMHO has some similarity with Delphi, which is what I have used for m