Re: plans

[Andy Wingo]

Hey Kevin,

On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 09:16 +1100, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > The other thing that still bothers me are the generics. I'd like for it
> > to be possible to load the guile libraries without making generic
> > functions, without importing them into your namespace. Thoughts on this?
> 
> Having been using the plain functions in the guile-gtk, getting the
> same would seem like a good thing to me.  But I'm not sure if it's
> good to have two styles of interface.  The generics aren't too
> terrible, maybe everyone should be made to use them.

The longer names, e.g. gtk-bin-add, are also there. They're also really
cheap to make, and they help in figuring out what operations are
supported on a type (gtk-window- TAB in the repl). The generics are just
abbreviations, basically.

Regards,

Andy
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