Re: Convenience functions

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Friday, July 6, 2001, at 09:29  PM, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:
> >       g_object_weak_pointer()
> >       g_object_weak_pointer_remove()
> >
> >    are appreciated.
> >
> >       g_object_setup_weak_pointer()
> >       g_object_remove_weak_pointer()
> >
> >    are clearer and nicely verb/noun, but long for a common operation.
>
> I vote for:
>
>  g_object_add_weak_pointer()
>  g_object_remove_weak_pointer()
>
> We're hardly in
> nautilus_perform_operation_with_frobation_and_foobar_ensuring_precondition_xyz(
> )
> territory there. ;-) I don't think this is really common enough to
> warrant a lame name, and anything is shorter than the old
> gtk_signal_connect(gtk_widget_destroyed) rigmarole.

Not that you guys care, but the eel functions for this are named:

    eel_nullify_when_destroyed
    eel_nullify_cancel

I like Havoc's names best so far.

    -- Darin