Re: Lacking of a ref-counted string.



On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:07:39 -0400
"Havoc Pennington" <hp pobox com> wrote:

> If we think of GLib features as either for C, or for language bindings
> in general, or for vala, this particular feature seems like it would
> be *only* for vala - refcounted strings would be pretty strange in
> plain C, and just overhead for other language bindings that already
> have native string types they have to convert gchar* to.

I personally have quite often wanted refcounted GStrings in "normal"
programs that I've written; i.e. entirely unrelated to VALA.

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