Re: [Vala] GValue magic

[Sam Liddicott <sam liddicott com>]

* Andrea Bolognani wrote, On 08/07/08 10:31:

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:05:29 -0700
"Christian Hergert" <christian hergert gmail com> wrote:

  

Hi,

Wanted to suggest a feature that would be useful to simply the
consumption of GValue based methods. Just a bit of compiler magic to
automatically box/unbox values into GValue's?

For example,

public void do_something (GValue *value);

// create a gvalue, and use proper g_value_set method
do_something ("blah");
or
do_something (100);

If others are interested, I will create a bug.
    

The idea is pretty good, but if I understand correctly this will lead to
a C API using GValues as parameters for the various methods. Which is
absolutely not convenient if you intend to use a library written in Vala (eg
libgee, but I'm pretty sure more will come) from a C program.
  

I think the opposite was suggested.
If you are using a library whose API uses GValues, then you can just provide normal values and vala will take care of expressing them as GValues as the API may require.

I think the plan was not to have Vala methods automatically accept GValues

Sam