[Bug 39189] [next] decide on a policy for transfer, naming and containers

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39189

--- Comment #21 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2012-09-04 11:12:35 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #19)
> oh, and to add to the policy: _finish() functions dups the return values and
> out args. I remember having seen an exception to that rule, but couldn't find
> which function anymore. Could be in another codebase (empathy?).

I endorse this proposal. It's consistent with GIO.

If the async method would otherwise have been called get_thing_async(), I've
generally been calling it dup_thing_async() to make this even more obvious.

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