Re: [java-gnome-hackers] sourceview development branch

[Serkan K. <se...@ge...>]

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Andrew Cowie yazmış:
I don't know how common it is but users are always able to add custom
language definitions. Predefining constants for languages will hinder
this extensibility.

> Normally I'm pretty obsessive about strong typing, and the idea of
> strongly-typed Language instances seems fine. Fair bit of work to get
> at, as we've seen. So part of me wonders if we couldn't compress that a
> bit.
> 
> If it wasn't for the fact that I just asserted how important strong type
> safety is, I'd almost be tempted to suggest:
> 
>         buffer.setLanguage("java");
> 
> but... no.
> 
> Hm.
> 
> Dare I suggest preconfigured constants, ie Language.JAVA maybe? See
> org.gnome.gtk's PaperSize.A4 and friends. So have a look at that, have a
> look at the no-arg TextTag() and no-arg TextBuffer() constructors. While
> you're at it, see org.gnome.gtk's Statusbar for an example of where we
> just engineered around something that was silly.
> 
> See if any of these spawn any bright ideas.
> 
> [obviously the risk with preconfigured constants is we don't want to
> force GtkSourceView to load all kinds of stuff if we aren't going to
> need it, and initializing constants has a tendency to do that unless
> you're careful about being lazy]
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Sincerely,
Serkan KABA
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