[Development] Changing qreal to a float

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 21 de fevereiro de 2012 15.40.16, jan-arve.saether at nokia.com 
wrote:
> Sorry for top-posting from my N9...
> 
> 
> I was thinking the same, but I'm afraid we can't change it, since it would
> cause too many subtle bugs.
 
> The best thing I can think is to deprecate it, and add a QRectS or QRectI,
> but I'm not utterly convinced...

We could deprecate QRect and QRectF, and introduce a proper QRectangle. It 
should be doable by means of an implicit QRect(const QRectangle<int> &) 
constructor and an operator QRectangle<int>() const.

If that doesn't work, it would unfortunately mean deprecating all of the API 
that uses QRect and QRectF and add new API.

But by the same token that Andreas has of subtle bugs, this change would 
introduce subtle bugs in Qt code that relies on the quirky QRect behaviour.

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