Re: [Vala] Question regarding passing a strings as arguments to a method

[Abderrahim Kitouni <a kitouni gmail com>]

Hello,

2011/7/11 Serge Hulne <serge hulne gmail com>:
> If one has a look at the C code generated by Vala for the following
> two examples, it appears that the "unowned" keyword has no influence
> on the way
> the string b (of type gchar*) is passed to f().
>
> In both cases, it is passed as a pointer (without duplication).
>
> Therefore it seems to me that the Vala tutorial is slightly misleading
> and should read:
>
>
> - "In Vala strings are always passed by address".

A string in Vala is a *reference* type [1] and therefore passed by
reference. The documentation is correct here, it may just need to
point out clearly that fact.

HTH,
Abderrahim

[1] it is a bit special because it is immutable, and thus copied
whenever there is a new strong reference to it