Re: [wxhaskell-users] Re: wxHaskell on win32 without the DOS-box

[David R. <dr...@jd...>]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:32:39PM +0100, Daan Leijen wrote:
> Another solution that I am contemplating is the use of reflective
> attributes where the constructor would look in the list of attributes to
> see if an initial size is specified. This would solve your troubles but
> it is kind of unsatifying that this would create a distinction between:
> 
> >f <- frame [attr := expr]
> 
> and
> 
> >f <- frame []
> >set f [attr := expr]
> 
> 
> Anyhow, I think that I will implement the latter solution anyway,
> so your program will work as expected in the next release.

This does make the WX layer a bit confusing, but it would bring it closer
to the way wxWindows works, which would make things a bit easier for people
moving to wxHaskell from wxWindows, so I'm all for it.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org