[cairo] Re: cairomm API/ABI freeze?

Rick L Vinyard Jr rvinyard at cs.nmsu.edu
Fri Aug 18 08:49:36 PDT 2006


Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> What about the following?
> Cairo::Context::begin_new_path()
> Cairo::Context::begin_new_sub_path()
>
> Advantages:
> - retains a pretty close mapping to the C cairo functions
> - retains an obvious parallellism between the two functions
> - prefix 'begin_' makes it clear that we're not using 'new' in the C++ 
> sense
>
> Disadvantages:
> - ?
>
> Thoughts? opinions? alternate suggestions?
>
Sounds good. The 'begin_new_' prefix removes the C++ new operator 
confusion that I think 'new_' alone presents.



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