From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-04-08T15:18:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea: Simplified GTK

Its Me wrote:
>>Is it really *that* bad to do additional tweaking with a separate method
>>call?
> 
> No, it isn't. It's just that I don't see
> (1)    button "Label" {
>         block
>     }
> as that much better than
> (s)    button {
>         label "Label"
>         on_click { block }
>     }

For one thing (and this is a minor point) I like to make things a single
line whenever I can (without using semicolons).

So I'd rather do:  button("Label") { call_me }

It's fewer characters, tokens, and lines this way.

Maybe we could allow both. I'm a believer (though some are not) in a
little "magic" parameter handling.

In other words, we could code it so as to permit calling it either way.

For example, when would a button ever be labelless? Default it to nil, 
and if no label is specified, it's the second kind of call.

> Is the bigger question though: how to best scale with no (or minimal) change
> to incorporate all the wonderful widgets that might exist?

Hmm, I think every container would work almost the same way.

Why don't we take a moderately complex example program and implement
enough to get it to work?

Maybe something from http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.net/tut/toc.htm ?

Hal