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| author | Jürg Billeter <j@bitron.ch> | 2008-10-22 17:52:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Jürg Billeter <juergbi@src.gnome.org> | 2008-10-22 17:52:25 +0000 |
| commit | 7e044a53b023ec2322d0108c02d97a9fe00da6ca (patch) | |
| tree | 5b753d119a398ddb9b71ee32b3f430e4b9cf224b /README | |
| parent | 77cb9aea10d9baaa55a6f188b686884bee918306 (diff) | |
| download | vala-7e044a53b023ec2322d0108c02d97a9fe00da6ca.tar.gz | |
Improve wording
2008-10-22 Jürg Billeter <j@bitron.ch>
* README: Improve wording
svn path=/trunk/; revision=1868
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@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ applications and libraries written in C. valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala source -code. It's also planned to generate GIDL files when gobject- -introspection is ready. +code. The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the GObject type system. Vala supports modern language features as the following: @@ -24,9 +23,9 @@ type system. Vala supports modern language features as the following: * Exception handling Vala is designed to allow access to existing C libraries, especially -GObject-based libraries, without the need for runtime bindings. Each to -be used library requires a Vala API file at compile-time, containing the -class and method declarations in Vala syntax. Vala currently comes with +GObject-based libraries, without the need for runtime bindings. All that +is needed to use a library with Vala is an API file, containing the class +and method declarations in Vala syntax. Vala currently comes with bindings for GLib and GTK+. It's planned to provide generated bindings for the full GNOME Platform at a later stage. |