Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes: > For the sake of humans reading introspection output, it is nice > to have the name of implicit array types be recognizable as > arrays of the underlying type. However, while this patch allows > humans to skip from a command with return type "[123]" straight > to the definition of type "123" without having to first inspect > type "[123]", document that this shortcut should not be taken by > client apps.
Personally, I still don't see much value in special-casing array names. On the other hand, the patch is really simple. > This makes the resulting introspection string slightly larger by > default, but slightly smaller when -u is in use (as '[FOO]' is > nicer than 'FOOList' for expressing 'array of FOO'). Size with -u is unimportant. If we don't want to pay the prize in size without -u, we can make it conditional on -u. But with -u, [FOO] isn't much of an improvement over FooList. Anyway, if you want the feature, I'll take the patch.
