[cairo] Re: cairomm API/ABI freeze?

Carl Worth cworth at cworth.org
Fri Aug 18 09:40:58 PDT 2006


On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:19:57 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> > > 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
> > >
> > > 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.

A huge improvement over clear_path.

Well done, Jonathon!

-Carl
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