[haiku-development] Re: [patch] Show partition types in DriveSetup

  • From: José Manuel <jmfo1982@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:09:36 +0200

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:48:19 -0400, John Scipione wrote:

> That being said I find this line to be particularly... interesting.
>
>     BString partitionType = (BString) "(" << partition->Type() << ")";
>
> I wouldn't think that casting to a BString like that would work, perhaps
> I'm wrong and that is okay but I'd prefer to see something like this:

Well, yeah, that cast works... and I was amazed also that it did :p

I wrote it like that as that was the shorter way to type it I found,
while keeping the code easy to read.

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:00:24 -0400, John Scipione wrote:

> Even better would be:
>
>      BString partitionType(partition->Type());
>      partitionType.Prepend("(");
>      partitionType.Append(")");

Okay, I've changed the code in this way. I like it, it's more clear to
read. Thanks, John.

I just sent the patch to the ticket in the bug tracker, as you and
Adrien suggested, reopening it:

https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/4235

Best regards,
José Manuel

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