Re: [Vala] gtk treeview (one column) example

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 21:07 +0100, pancake wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 06:36:08PM +0100, J?rg Billeter wrote:
> > You should be able to use
> >
> > string foo;
> > ?tv.model.get(ref iter, 0, out foo);
> >
> > to retrieve a string. Your version will lead to a memory leak as the
> > preallocated GString will be replaced by the string allocated by the
> > tree model.
>
> this kind of things should be detected by the compiler or at least
> documented anywhere and do not relay on the final user to make this
> things well, because they're a bit confusing (and there's no doc ?)

The issue here is that TreeModel.get is a varargs function, it shouldn't
happen with methods with typed parameters. The possibility to check
varargs functions will be very limited.

Jürg