Re: GSignal documentation

[Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu pobox com>]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:16:45AM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu pobox com> writes: 
> > Everything is fine, except that the name `instance' is too generic.  It's
> > really a `scope_instance' -- since everything that connects to a signal's
> > scope receives emissions.  Contrary to the documentation, i feel like the
> > signal system doesn't have much to do with objects.  Rather it bridges
> > scopes and pierces abstraction layers -- i think of it as a run-time
> > scope system.
> 
> What is a "signal's scope"? I don't understand how you are using
> "scope" here.
>
> Signals can be on any instance of a type. Types don't have to be
> GObjects. (This is a bit silly IMO, but that's how it is.)  The
> "instance" here is simply the object emitting the signal.

Perhaps what i am trying to say is that the signal's itype/instance only
determine the signal's scope.  The emitters and receivers of a signal
may or may not be part of the signal's instance.  To contrast, the
documentation seems to imply that the signal is probably emitted by
the instance.

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