* Andrea Bolognani wrote, On 08/07/08 10:31:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:05:29 -0700
> "Christian Hergert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Wanted to suggest a feature that would be useful to simply the
>> consumption of GValue based methods. Just a bit of compiler magic to
>> automatically box/unbox values into GValue's?
>>
>> For example,
>>
>> public void do_something (GValue *value);
>>
>> // create a gvalue, and use proper g_value_set method
>> do_something ("blah");
>> or
>> do_something (100);
>>
>> If others are interested, I will create a bug.
>>
>
> The idea is pretty good, but if I understand correctly this will lead to
> a C API using GValues as parameters for the various methods. Which is
> absolutely not convenient if you intend to use a library written in Vala (eg
> libgee, but I'm pretty sure more will come) from a C program.
>
I think the opposite was suggested.
If you are using a library whose API uses GValues, then you can just
provide normal values and vala will take care of expressing them as
GValues as the API may require.
I think the plan was not to have Vala methods automatically accept GValues
Sam
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