[webkit-dev] Change to style guideline: should use type& instead of type* for out arguments

[David Levin]

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 <rniwa at 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 <rniwa at 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.
>>
>>
>
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