Re: [gtk-list] Re: Perl comments

[Marius Vollmer <mvo zagadka ping de>]

Owen Taylor <owt1@cornell.edu> writes:
>
> I would suggest instead adopting the IDL convention that parameters
> can be "in" (default), "inout", or "out". Almost all such parameters
> in functions and signal handlers are "out" not "inout" and this can
> be used to advantage by language bindings. 

Yes, that sounds much better than `by-ref'.