RE: [Vala] Lacking of a ref-counted string.

[Sam Liddicott <sam liddicott com>]

I think it has what you ask for, if a class doesn't inherit from gobject then internally it inherits from gtypeinstance which is what you said.

Sometimes people don't distinguish between the two, though.

However I want compact non-gobject non-gtype instance (I want I want... Never satisifed with what Juerg et al have produced for me...)

Sam

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From: Ali Sabil <ali sabil gmail com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:25 PM
To: Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
Cc: gtk-devel-list <gtk-devel-list gnome org>; Vala Mailing list <vala-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: [Vala] Lacking of a ref-counted string.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:

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.

You could just wrap simple GObjects around GString and GPtrArray

Wouldn't that be overkill ? do we need signals and properties for strings and arrays ? maybe GLib/GObject should have something like GstMiniObject that only provides reference counting and no signals/properties ?