On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:53:14AM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> On 7/15/05, Christian Hammond <chipx86 at gnupdate.org> wrote:
> > Rather than working with numeric IDs, we should be using an object
> > system.
>
> YES please, I don't think people in general appreciate the value of
> using object systems and so tend to do lots of unneccesary work. For
> example, in my project I didn't make decent objects of my components,
> just some structs that "were enough". It took me several weeks to make
> it somewhat working and still it had some issues plus extending it was
> a pain.
Yeah, objects are definitely a plus. A lot of painful code can go away
when using a decent object system, and it often allows others to do
more with your code than you first expected.
> Then I did a smart move by throwing the structs away, making proper
> objects and it took me half the time and work to make it work better
> than it did before. And the system is easily extendable.
>
> Plus you get the easy bindings.
Yep.
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> These are also on the top of my list of Go/xprop.man/1.2/=//
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