Re: (inout) (transfer full) annotations for container types

[Simon Feltman <s feltman gmail com>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:32 AM, Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk> wrote:
> If there is no convention, I suggest it makes more sense to have the
> caller only ever call g_array_unref(), g_ptr_array_unref(),
> g_hash_table_unref(), and never explicitly free the elements. For
> (transfer full), the callee should be responsible for setting the
> clear/free function for elements. For (transfer container), the callee
> should be responsible for *not* setting such a function (or for adding
> the elements to a newly allocated container with no free function set,
> or similar).

For what it's worth, this interpretation makes a lot of sense to me.

-Simon