Post #2390459
2025-12-17 14:17 UTC
So if I’m getting it right, gobject is short for gnugnu(…)gnuimptklibobject.
Replies (5)
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@marcos@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 15:53
Following the modern C conventions, the text following the series of (gnu) doesn’t matter and you can write anything you want there.
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@pennomi@lemmy.world 2025-12-17 15:10
gnuplestiltskin
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@logi@lemmy.world 2025-12-18 06:13
It is front recursive so it's really "...is not unix is not unix is not unix is not unix image manipulation program tool kit object" and that first g doesn't exist.
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@UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-18 03:37
It's recursive so it's more like gnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnugnu...
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@jaybone@lemmy.zip 2025-12-17 16:59
Now you need to write a layer of typedefs to map the expanded names back to their original types.