It feels like the material about RefPtr belongs here: http://www.webkit.org/coding/RefPtr.html instead of the style guide since that is where everything else about how to properly use RefPtr/PassRefPtr is.
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: > FYI, a patch has been posted to > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69766 to make this change along > with "get" prefix convention for getters that return values via out > arguments. > > - Ryosuke > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> It came to my attention that some people are using raw pointers to pass >> out-arguments (e.g. bug 69366). In my understanding, we use pass by >> reference for out arguments when they have to be modified in callees. >> >> If there's no objection, I'm going to file a bug & upload a patch to state >> this explicitly in the style guideline. >> >> Best, >> Ryosuke Niwa >> Software Engineer >> Google Inc. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >
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