Re: [Vala] Passing Ownership Help

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 02:36:23AM +0900, Peter Cartwright wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am trying to understand how a function can take ownership of an object
> passed into it. According to documentation it should be like below:
>
> MyList.add (owned Person p) {
>   _first = (owned) p;
> }
>
> Person p = new Person ("Bobby");
> List.add (p);
> stdout.printf ("%u\n", p.ref_count);
>
> But when I do it like this and check the reference count of p, it is equal
> to 2... shouldn't it be 1? I want the list to be the new owner of P.

You're still owning p in that scope. You want List.add ((owned) p);

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