[cairo] Re: cairomm API/ABI freeze?

Murray Cumming murrayc at murrayc.com
Fri Aug 18 09:19:57 PDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 09:49 -0600, Rick L Vinyard Jr wrote:
> 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.

Yes, it's good.

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