Re: [Liberty-eiffel] [libertyeiffel] VARIANT and G_VALUE

[Cyril ADRIAN]

Hi Paolo,

This needs some thought, and deserves a detailed answer; and I have a bit of research to do since I don't really know the gobject architecture.

So I will not answer right now :-)

Cheers,

Cyril ADRIAN

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2013/8/5 Paolo Redaelli <address@hidden>

I liked Cyril idea on VARIANT and TYPED_VARIANT and I'm implementing it into database wrappers.
Then I read gobject's G_VALUE discovering that GObject's variant would not fit in that design, as they have just one "polymorphic" class offering all kind of creation clauses.
Of course the untyped parent/typed heirs fits better in a proper OO design as it's naturally extensible.

Do you think it would be necessary to add several TYPED_VARIANT heirs to G_VALUE, such as G_STRING_VALUE (...) which are heirs of both TYPED_VARIANT[STRING], G_VALUE ?