Re: [Vala] List behavior with new operator

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Sam, 2006-08-26 at 21:57 -0500, Cayle Graumann wrote:
> I've discovered something:  If you use a List object, be sure not to
> use the new operator followed by append.  It adds a null object to the
> list, that will cause you to get failed assertions when you iterate
> through the List.
[...]
> I don't know if this is something fixable in Vala because it seems the
> result of the way GList is implemented in GLib, but maybe something
> can be done with the new operator so as not to actually create a null
> object.  I would image this behavior holds true for some of the other
> GLib container classes as well.

Will probably special case the constructor of GList and GSList to just
return null, thanks for the report.

> I do want to say thanks to Jurg and the rest of the developers for
> getting the foreach to work across all the containers.  Having to use
> Iterators in java is one of the few things I find annoying about
> Java. 

Foreach implementation for GLists is not as clean as it should be but it
should be improved over time.

> Thanks again and keep up the good work.  I'm having fun with vala,
> hope you are too.

Thanks for your feedback, nice to hear that.

Regards,

Jürg