On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 08:22 -0700, bsquared wrote:
> Martin Ertsås <mert...@cisco.com> writes:
> >
> > You could use out instead to populate the list:
> >
> > static void populate_list (out Slist<string> list) {
> > }
> >
> > And call this method with:
> >
> > var list = new Slist<string> ();
> > populate_list (out list);
>
> Thank you.
>
> I originally tried the 'out' modifier, and I got a warning[1].
> I looked at the tutorial[2] and it seems to indicate the 'ref'
> modifier is used as in your example. It indicates that the 'out'
> modifier is called like this:
>
> SList<string> list;
> populate_list (out list);
>
> It would be initialized on the callee side.
>
> static void populate_list (out SList<string> list) {
> list = new SList<string> ();
> [...]
> }
>
> [1] - use of possibly unassigned parameter.
> [2] - http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Tutorial#Parameter_Directions The empty list is NULL not new SList<string> (). new SList<string> () is a list of length 1 with garbage as contents. Regards
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