Re: [Vala] Closures in vala

[Denis Cheremisov <denis-cheremisov yandex ru>]

Of course, it is because of loop reference, while now vala's memory management is using reference counting.
I suppose it's an inconvenience, to keep in mind, to create "weak" object instead of normal. Why don't you use libgc?

On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 17:03 +0100, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 00:31 +0300, Denis Cheremisov wrote:
> > I have asked about them later, but didn't get any reply. I about if the
> > function returning delegate uses not its local variables but heap. In
> > this case delegates should have an addition first argument, pointing to
> > the structure in the heap. For example:
>
> It would be nice to have closures in Vala, however we probably won't be
> able to support it for arbitrary delegates as they usually don't have
> the necessary support for memory management. We might be able to add
> closures to Vala with some limits, I'm not planning on working on it
> right now, though.
>
> Jürg