[Development] Removing QBool?

[Gábor Lehel]

2012/1/15 Giuseppe D'Angelo <dangelog at gmail.com>:
> 2012/1/15 Gábor Lehel <illissius at gmail.com>:
>> 2012/1/7 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
>>> On Saturday, 7 de January de 2012 01.03.50, David Faure wrote:
>>>> Shouldn't we clean that up for Qt5 and just use a bool for the contains
>>>> method  again? The Qt4 API ensures that nobody still has if (contains()==2)
>>>> in their code anyway.
>>>
>>> I think it should be gone.
>>>
>>> For the few methods where a boolean is needed and arithmetic is wrong, the
>>> suggestion is to use the RestrictedBool solution:
>>>
>>>        typedef int ClassName:: *RestrictedBool;
>>
>> Apologies for the off-topic:
>>
>> Is the RestrictedBool technique documented anywhere? What it does, how
>> it works, why it works? I can see that it's using a member pointer to
>> simulate a bool (presumably to avoid implicit casts to int and such),
>> but not why this is preferable to a void* (fewer operations
>> permitted?), and in particular why it has to be a pointer to a member
>> of the specific class it is being used for instead of some
>> globally-defined dummy class (even fewer operations permitted? but
>> which ones?). Googling found nothing except the existing usage in
>> QSharedPointer.
>
> See f.i. http://www.artima.com/cppsource/safebool.html

Thanks!

>
> Cheers,
> --
> Giuseppe D'Angelo