Re: GError implementation

[Kevin Handy <kth srv net>]

Tim Janik wrote:
> 
> On 23 Jun 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > /* gerror.h - Error reporting system
> >  *
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> >  *
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> >
> > #ifndef __GERROR_H__
> > #define __GERROR_H__
[snip]
> >
> > #ifdef __cplusplus
> > extern "C"
> > {
> > #endif
> >
> > typedef struct _GError GError;
> >
> > struct _GError
> > {
> >   GQuark       module;
> 
> i already said this to owen, do s/module/domain/ to saty consistent with
> the g_log() naming scheme and avoid confusion with GModules.
> 
> >   gint         code;
> >   const gchar *str;
> 
> can we write this out? "string" isn't an awfully long name, other
> candidates are "description", or to think of the Gimp's API "blurb".

If you want to be able to use this with C++, then 'string' would 
probably cause problems with the STL 'string' class.