On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 19:07 +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> So far, Vala doesn't use the non-null type information by default, i.e.
> your application will work fine even if you don't specify the `?` type
> suffix for possibly-null types. That's about to change in the upcoming
> 0.3.x releases. Automatic generation of runtime checks for method
> parameters will be enabled by default, which means that if you pass null
> to a method and forget to add the `?` to the parameter type, you'll get
> a critical runtime warning.
This has been enabled now in Vala SVN trunk. There are two new
commandline options:
--disable-non-null revert to the behavior of Vala 0.2.0
in case you want to update Vala but
haven't ported your code yet
--enable-non-null-experimental warn whenever you try to use a
possibly-null type as a non-null
type, this is still work in progress
and considered experimental