On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 11:53, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Le jeu 10/10/2002 à 12:37, Michael Meeks a écrit :
> > Hi Christophe,
> >
> > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 09:20, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > > I thought a little more to that, and I'm really not comfortable with the
> > > way user can prevent gnome_vfs_get_file_info from doing expensive work
> > > when it's not needed.
> >
> > Why ? ;-) it's obviously the best thing to do.
>
> What I meant was "Imo, the current API to prevent expensive operations
> is suboptimal and not very natural". Obviously it's a good thing to be
> able to prevent unneeded slow operations to happen :)
Me sings the lonely song of getter and setter functions :-). Seriously,
this way we could fetch the info when it's needed and wouldn't have to
load member variables "on suspicion" that someone wanted the info.
Nils
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