Re: Function completion for GVariant maybe types?

[Markus Elfring <Markus Elfring web de>]

> This seems to be basically "a matter of taste" so without a compelling
> reason to add more API, the maintainer's opinion (i.e. Ryan's) will
> tend to win.

Thanks for your feedback.

Would you like to answer any more details from my "issue summary"?
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2011-December/msg00021.html


> I'm inclined to agree with Ryan, tbh - I don't see that there's any need
> for more functions here.

Please tell me then which function(s) I should use to reset a GVariant object to 
an instance of "nothing" while the previous data type information will be kept.


> In a well-designed D-Bus API (or any of the other common uses I see
> for GVariant, like serialization) you already know at compile-time what
> type you're using, so you can just mention the type signature
> (or GVariantType in GLib jargon) in your source code.

I imagine uses cases outside the D-Bus application context.

Regards,
Markus