Re: C vs C++ for GTK

[Dan H <dunno stoptrick com>]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:40:41 -0700
Michael L Torrie <torriem chem byu edu> wrote:

> Dan H wrote:

> > Isn't "smart pointers" just a reference counting scheme?
> 
> Yup.  Poor-man's garbage collection.  Turns out to be just the
> ticket, though, for GUI programming.  Because of that, I'd put
> productivity with GTKmm to be right up there with PyGTK or GTK#.

Reference counting is already a feature of the underlying GTK+/C layer. As always somewhat more verbose than C++.

--D.