Re: [Vala] reference management.

["Alexandre Moreira" <alexandream gmail com>]

On 3/20/07, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
> On Die, 2007-03-20 at 10:17 -0300, Alexandre Moreira wrote:
> > I think it would be just great to allow the user to specify an "expert
> > mode" and allow him to do the ref unref by himself (just like GObject
> > does, giving G.Object a method to do each action) and, at most, having
> > the auto-unref-local-variables-unless-specified-otherwise.
> >
> > Basically it would mean the addition of the ref/unref methods and an
> > option to set all references to weak.
>
> You can disable automatic memory management in vala by using the
> --disable-memory-management command-line option. I've also added ref and
> unref methods to GLib.Object, so you can leak as much memory as you want
> now ;)

Just to be sure, these (methods ref and unref) aren't available in the
current svn 249, are they ? if they are, I can't find a way to use
them in anyway...

Regards,
Alexandre Moreira.