Re: [Vala] Ownership syntax changes

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 12:19 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le vendredi 19 décembre 2008 à 12:10 +0100, Jürg Billeter a écrit :
> > I just committed some ownership syntax changes to trunk. The old syntax
> > will continue to be supported but is planned to be deprecated after the
> > release of Vala 0.5.4.
> >
> >
> >       * `owned' type modifier replaces `#' type modifier
> >
> > This is not often used, but `#' was very unintuitive as a type modifier,
> > and I therefore decided to replace it by the hopefully better
> > understandable `owned' modifier. Example of new syntax:



> > public void foo (owned string bar) {
> >     [...]
> > }
>
> I like the idea, but the word "owned" doesn't really tells by who it's
> owned (caller or callee). How about something like "callers" or
> "transfer" ?
What about 'steal'? seems in gtk steal is already used in a similar
situation, where the freer is stolen.

public void foo (steal string bar);

for the caller side, what about an antonym of steal, like
foo(donate "bar");



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