Re: Common GUI API : What would the code look like?

Nick Name <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.haskell.gui
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:35:39 +0000
Glynn Clements <[email protected]> wrote:

> 1. Widgets aren't being given names. This makes it impossible to refer
>  to them from outside of the code. It also eliminates the possibility
>  of implementing a useable Xt (e.g. Motif) backend. Toolkits which
>  don't name widgets can just ignore the name.

Apart from the fact that I would like names for widget as an added
comfort, why do you have to name widget to implement them in Xt?
Couldn't you just use a unique string generator and wrap the names into
an ADT? I apologize if the question is stupid.

Vincenzo
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