Re: Lacking of a ref-counted string.

From: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
To: Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>
Cc: gtk-devel-list <gtk-devel-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: Lacking of a ref-counted string.
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:23:35 +0200

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:10 -0400, Yu Feng wrote:
> Dear Devs,
> 
> Is there any particular reason that GLib doesn't provide a ref-counted
> string and a ref-counted array type? Lacking them in GLib makes the VALA
> language a real pain.
> 
> Is it possible to introduce them in the next major ABI breaking? When
> will the breaking be? 

For a very light-weight implementation of refcounted strings, see
EelRefString in
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/eel/trunk/eel/eel-string.c?view=markup

References:
- Lacking of a ref-counted string.
  - From: Yu Feng

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