state of dbus and guadec dbus meeting notes

[Havoc Pennington]

Hi,

Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 7/20/07, Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com> wrote:
>>     - add "maybe" types, essentially typed NULL, i.e. "ms" = "maybe
>>       string" = "string or null"
>>       - C/Java/C#/C++ binding for "maybe int" and similar is ugly
> 
> Small nitpick: C# has nullable value types, so you can declare "bool?
> foo;" and have its value be true, false, or null.  So mapping this
> onto C# probably wouldn't be a problem.

Ah, right.

> How you would do the others, though, I have no idea.

In C it probably has to be something like:

  foo(gboolean haveCount, int count)

Havoc