Re: [Vala] out, ref and GError parameters.

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Mit, 2007-03-14 at 18:10 -0300, Alexandre Moreira wrote:
> I'd love to have pointer support, this is basically "THE" thing I miss
> in Vala, not that I would use it that much... just that I like the
> Error support in GLib and wouldn't feel like using an exception
> handling mechanism ...

Could you explain why you wouldn't like try, catch, throw syntax for
GError?

> If I'm allowed to ask: PLEASE, add pointer support :) It shouldn't be
> the preferred way to do things but I'd love to have it available to
> solve the problems one might face.

Yes, it probably makes sense, at least to make it easier to bind some
non-GObject libraries. I can imagine that parsing the pointer syntax
will be a bit tedious but the rest shouldn't be that hard.

Jürg