Re: [Gtk2hs-users] RFC: changes to implementation of object hierarchy

[Duncan C. <dun...@wo...>]

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 21:58, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> Axel and I have been talking about (arguing over :-) ) some changes to
> the implementation of the object hierarchy.

> This doesn't change the type or behaviour of any of the from* to*
> functions.

Actually, another thing that Axel noted is that the from<type>
downcasting functions are not really things that we'd like to expose to
the user since they are not typesafe. In the current implementation they
are class methods so we cannot hide them. With the proposed
implementation they are just ordinary functions so we can decide not to
export them.

I tried this, that is not generating and not exporting the from<type>
functions. Everything still builds ok, so I guess nothing was using
these functions. There are several uses of fromGObject however.

Duncan