Re: [Vala] List behavior with new operator

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 11:52 +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> On Sam, 2006-08-26 at 21:57 -0500, Cayle Graumann wrote:
> > I've discovered something:  If you use a List object, be sure not to
> > use the new operator followed by append.  It adds a null object to the
> > list, that will cause you to get failed assertions when you iterate
> > through the List.
> [...]
> > I don't know if this is something fixable in Vala because it seems the
> > result of the way GList is implemented in GLib, but maybe something
> > can be done with the new operator so as not to actually create a null
> > object.  I would image this behavior holds true for some of the other
> > GLib container classes as well.
>
> Will probably special case the constructor of GList and GSList to just
> return null, thanks for the report.

Fixed in SVN.

Jürg