Man this is a trap. There is no logical relation between failing to provide examples and the the validaty of a feature.
The consideration about maintenance makes more sense. and I would like to say again, I agree it is a large patch and I understand any repulsion toward it: after all it is alien and foreign. A big patch solving one or two case is useless. You've already spend so much commits patching all the mess with [NoArrayLength] [array_length_pos] [cname] and [FloatingReference]. There is really no point to introduce another mess to replace them and to kill their descendants. A movement in the opposite direction costs too much. Let's forget about it. Regards, Yu On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 12:26 +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 05:49 -0400, Yu Feng wrote: > > Just a scratch of idea: > > > > class array<T> { > > [CCode (snippet = "int i; while(((T)this)[i]) i++; return i;")] > > public int get_length(); > This won't work (arrays may contain null/0 entries), and it would be > slow. > > > [CCode (snippet = "gpointer * rt; while((T)(this)[i]) i++; result.length > > = i; rt = g_new0(T, i); for(i=0; i<result.length; i++) rt[i] = this[i]); > > return rt;")] > > public array duplicate(); > > This would at least break memory management, and it looks like a strange > combination of C and Vala syntax, not easy to understand. > > [CCode (snippet = "return this[id];")] > > public T element(int id); > > Might work if we treated the element method specially, doesn't sound > that straight forward to me. > > > [CCode (snippet = "g_free(this);")] > > public void free(); > > We don't want free functions in the bindings API, we already have > `delete' to free memory if you use raw pointers. > > Jürg > _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list