Re: [Vala] reference management.

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Die, 2007-03-20 at 19:15 -0300, Alexandre Moreira wrote:
> 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...

They should be available since r247 but unfortunately you have to use
foo  ref () instead of foo.ref () as ref is a keyword.

Jürg