Re: GObject-Introspection 0.5.0

Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 10:09 -0500, Mike Kestner wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 17:39 +0200, Johan Dahlin wrote:
>>> Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
>>>> Johan Dahlin wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>  > I'm leaning towards using the "ownership" terminology instead of "transfer". 
>>>>> typedef enum {
>>>>>    GI_OWNERSHIP_CALLER, /* caller owns it, caller should free it after use */
>>>>>    GI_OWNERSHIP_CALLEE  /* callee owns it, caller should leave it as it is */
>>>>> } GITypeOwnership;
>>>> Just as a nitpick, these two names look very similar and quite confusing
>>>> for non-native English speakers.  Maybe you could come up with something
>>>> different, especially in place of 'callee'?
>>> Agreed, I'm open to suggestions.
>>> caller/subroutine ?
>> In GAPI, we have two ownership attributes on list elements: owned and
>> elements_owned.
> 
> or nothing is owned. Yes, we have these 3 in gtkmm too. Johan's system
> offers a fourth combination, list-not-owned, element-owned, so-far not
> seen in the wild), but it seems fine.

True, but most importantly: it supports lists of lists.

Johan