Re: GODataScalar, GODataVector and GODataMatrix removal

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le samedi 18 avril 2009 à 19:33 +0200, Emmanuel Pacaud a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Le samedi 18 avril 2009 à 19:23 +0200, Jean Bréfort a écrit :
> > I don't understand why this would be needed, or even useful. I need some
> > time to investigate what would be broken (candidates are abiword and
> > gchemutils).
>
> It's useful in an application where the data dimension is not know when
> we create the GOData object. Which is the case for an application I'm
> writing.

May be you create it too early. Would it be possible to implement data
with higher dimensionality with your patch? I have some uses cases for
three dimensional data (may be not in gnumeric though).

At the moment, I strongly disagree with this patch. Anyway, I'll take a
few hours next week to review it thoroughly.

Jean


> Even without that, it makes subclassing of GOData much simpler, and
> avoid much of the code duplication, which is quite obvious in the
> GODataVectorFoo and GODataMatrixFoo classes.
>
> GnmGODataFoo could be merged into a single GnmGOData class.
>
> It also helps to keep things consistent. For example,
> go_data_scalar_get_str which returns a const char *, where vector and
> matrix variants return char *.

They should all return char*, IMHO.


>       Emmanuel.
>
> > Le samedi 18 avril 2009 à 18:25 +0200, Emmanuel Pacaud a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Here's the patches that removes GODataScalar, GODataVector and
> > > GODataMatrix and moves their functionality into GOData.
> > >
> > > It could be possible to go further and also merge the GODataFooVal,
> > > GODataFooStr and GnmGOFooData classes into GODataVal, GODataStr and
> > > GnmGOData.
> > >
> > > Comments ?
> > >
> > >   Emmanuel.
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