Re: [Vala] const pointers

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 06:20 -0700, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> Is there any way in vala to specify 'const void*' / 'gconstpointer'? I
> often get warnings from gcc, because 'void*' in vapi files translate
> to gpointer, not gconstpointer.  
>
> If not, maybe 'void*' should be made 'const void* by default, just
> like string becomes 'const char*'. To make a regular old 'void*' the
> '#' operator could be used. I realize that's not ideal since '#' means
> "transfer ownership", while there is no ownership of pointers, but it
> is possible to make some analogies.

We don't support it at the moment, I'm leaning towards supporting
something like [Immutable] void* to achieve the desired effect.

Juerg