Re: [Vala] how to pass a List by reference?

[Martin Ertsås <mertsas cisco com>]

On 10/13/11 11:02 PM, "bsquared" <bwcode4u gmail com> wrote:

> I am guessing that I'm going about this wrong, but I want to populate a list
> from a static method.
>
>      static void populate_list (ref SList<string> list) {
>             list.append("");
>      }
>
> I am getting a compiler error:
> error: Cannot capture reference or output parameter
>
> I want the ownership of the list to belong to the calling method.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

You could use out instead to populate the list:

static void populate_list (out Slist<string> list) {
}

And call this method with:

var list = new Slist<string> ();
populate_list (out list);