Re: [Vala] GIO: nullable parameters, File object construction

[Frederik <scumm_fredo gmx net>]

Jürg Billeter wrote:
> No, that's intentional. GLib.File is an interface, not a class, and
> interfaces never have creation methods. GLib.File.new_for_path() is a
> static factory method, that uses the default Vfs to create an instance
> of a class that implements GLib.File.
>
> Jürg

Thanks. That interfaces can't have constructors sounds reasonable to me. 
But to me it seems strange that an interface may have static methods and 
one can actually call static methods on an interface. I guess GObject 
interfaces are different from Java / C# interfaces in that aspect.

Regards,

Frederik