Re: [Gaim-devel] exposing notification and debug api to perl

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Christian Hammond spake unto us the following wisdom:
> gaim_accounts_find()
>=20
> And there's also:
>=20
> gaim_accounts_find_with_prpl_id()
>=20
> So we want to match the namespace as best as possible.

A nice thing about perl is that both of these probably aren't
necessary...  A pretty standard trick in perl is to use hashes as
argument lists, so find_with_prpl_id might look like:

Gaim::Accounts->find (name =3D> "PacoPaco31", prpl_id =3D> "AIM/ICQ");

(Note that this isn't exactly what the parameters would be, and I am
aware of this, it's for the purpose of illustration.)

I agree completely with Christian (who doesn't?) that the scripting
language bindings should expose the C API as closely as possible ...
but where standard language practices like this exist, I think we
should use them.  We want perl programmers to be comfortable using
this API.

Ethan

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