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From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
To: guile-gtk@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: texinfo documentation
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 01:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m33cix8d4x.fsf@lumo.pacujo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877k89nx2w.fsf@zip.com.au>

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>:

> Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:
> >    guile-gtk: (gdk-string-to-compound str) => (string or #f
> >                                                encoding
> >                                                format)
> 
> Hmm.  (bool encoding format string) would better match the C function,
> in particular enough not to need to be described as a special case.
> 
> (Or only with a general note somewhere that gint returns that should
> be understdood as gboolean are treated that way by guile-gtk.)

Note that the C function returns 0 for success and any other value for
failure.

> Obviously there's no need to be absolutely slavish, but every
> difference is an inconsistency and a likely source of annoyance for
> programmers.

Since it's technically impossible to be absolutely slavish, I'm afraid
we will have to publish the signatures of each and every guile-gtk
function -- no other explanations are necessary.


Marko

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Marko Rauhamaa      mailto:marko@pacujo.net     http://pacujo.net/marko/

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-30  1:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-12  1:21 Kevin Ryde
2003-05-12  1:52 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2003-05-23 22:01   ` Kevin Ryde
2003-05-23 23:36     ` Marko Rauhamaa
2003-05-23 23:57       ` Kevin Ryde
2003-05-24  0:05         ` Marko Rauhamaa
2003-05-24  2:19           ` Kevin Ryde
     [not found]             ` <m3llwwdhjf.fsf@lumo.pacujo.net>
2003-05-25 22:48               ` Kevin Ryde
2003-05-25 23:28                 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2003-05-26  0:06                   ` Kevin Ryde
2003-05-26  2:42                     ` Marko Rauhamaa
2003-05-29 23:37                       ` Kevin Ryde
2003-05-30  1:06                         ` Marko Rauhamaa [this message]
2003-06-13 22:05                           ` gdk-string-to-compound (was: texinfo documentation) Kevin Ryde
2003-07-07 22:30                             ` gdk-string-to-compound Kevin Ryde
2003-05-29 23:43                       ` texinfo documentation Kevin Ryde
2003-06-01  4:31                         ` Marko Rauhamaa
2003-06-02 23:51                           ` gdk-window-get-origin (was: texinfo documentation) Kevin Ryde
2003-07-07 22:29                         ` gdk-window-get-geometry " Kevin Ryde
2003-05-26  0:07                   ` gdk-rectangle-new " Kevin Ryde
2003-05-26  1:20                     ` Marko Rauhamaa

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