Re: Function completion for GVariant maybe types?

[Markus Elfring <Markus Elfring web de>]

> Ryan and I have explained several times why we don't think the semantics
> you requested are useful to have in GLib.

I replied to your concerns. I was missing a bit more feedback in the 
meantime.
Now I hope that our small discussion can be continued in constructive ways.


> "I want to reset a variant variable" is not the explanation
> he asked for. The explanation we want might look more like "I want
> to use variants as values in a database, where 'maybe x' is a possible
> column type".

I would appreciate the requested functionality also for such an use 
case. I need it for concrete adjustments in applications like a 
partition manager.
Do you see the applicability by an open issue like "Improvements for 
partition in-use indication"?
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/review?bug=621677&attachment=205643


> ... - because you can't do anything useful with data of an unknown type.)

Thanks for your detailed response.

How would you like to achieve the feature to set a nullable object to  
the special marker "nothing" while keeping the previous data type 
information?

Regards,
Markus