Re: [Vala] [Bindings] Few quick questions about glib

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 14:40 -0700, Mihail Naydenov wrote:
> 1
> public class List<G>    {
> ...
> public G data;           //is this correct? Is not weak missing? Every
> other member function returning the data or a new list returns weak
> ref
> public List<G> next; //same here
> public weak List<G> prev;
> }

data and next are fields, not methods. Why do you think that they should
be weak references?

> 2
> Why are all major string functions in glib (g_str*), member functions
> in a string class? Shouldn't  they be static in the class or even just
> functions in string namespace? In the end they all return a new string
> and do not use any class data.

The string methods in Vala also don't modify an existing string
instance, they return a new string, so this should work fine. Strings
are considered immutable in Vala, just like in C# and Java.

Jürg