[cairo] Font options patch, first draft
Owen Taylor
otaylor at redhat.com
Tue Jul 19 07:52:13 PDT 2005
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 16:07 -0700, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> What happened to my idea of having a string interface? Can anybody at
> least comment on it?
Well, most of the same comments apply to it as to a FcPattern-style
varargs:
- It is extremely flexible and extensible
But:
- It is imprecisely specified and hard to document
- It doesn't have compile-time type safety
- It isn't very convenient for programmers (sprintf, anyone?)
Regards,
Owen
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