Can you please explain why? This is a method that returns a count of
references but has no mention of count in the name.
We have ref_add and wref_add that are talking about actual references but
ref_get returns a count?
This is misleading.

Andy

On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 at 09:49 Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Nov 2017 09:46:41 +0000 Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me>
> said:
>
> i'd have to disagree on it being misleading... :/
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Whilst writing the docs we have realised that efl_ref_get is a slightly
> > misleading method name as it returns the reference count. Whilst we are
> > breaking APIs for our first interfaces release would people mind me
> > changing efl_ref_get to efl_refcount_get (as per this eo patch, and all
> the
> > efl ramifications).
> >
> > I'd prefer not to leave the old method in place but could do so if you
> > think there is a big problem making this breaking change?
> >
> > Thanks :)
> > Andy
> >
> >
> > --
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> > http://ajwillia.ms
>
>
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>
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