Re: Convenience functions

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes:
> 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
> 

We do care Darin, I am just teasing with my nautilus_ joke there ;-)

Havoc