Re: Floating references

[Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak lingonborough com>]

6.06.2017 21:41 Chris Vine <vine35792468 gmail com> wrote:
> [...]
> No one is suggesting reworking. This is no more than intellectual
> interest in the original design choice.

I wasn't around when this design choice was made so I can only
guess. I can only repeat what Tristan has already said:
this is a feature of GInitiallyUnowned and its descendants
rather than all GObject instances. At least that was originally,
maybe it was changed later but remained to avoid breaking the
backward compatibility.

Regards,

Rafal