Re: [Vala] Ownership syntax changes

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

Le vendredi 19 décembre 2008 à 12:10 +0100, Jürg Billeter a écrit :
> I just committed some ownership syntax changes to trunk. The old syntax
> will continue to be supported but is planned to be deprecated after the
> release of Vala 0.5.4.
>
>
>       * `owned' type modifier replaces `#' type modifier
>
> This is not often used, but `#' was very unintuitive as a type modifier,
> and I therefore decided to replace it by the hopefully better
> understandable `owned' modifier. Example of new syntax:
>
> public void foo (owned string bar) {
>     [...]
> }

I like the idea, but the word "owned" doesn't really tells by who it's
owned (caller or callee). How about something like "callers" or
"transfer" ?