[Development] Historical question

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Fri Apr 4 08:15:48 CEST 2014


Em sex 04 abr 2014, às 08:07:22, Yves Bailly escreveu:
> Greetings all,
> 
> At the time of the move from Qt3 to Qt4, does anyone remember the reasons
> given for using headers without extensions? e.g.
> #include <QLabel>
> instead of
> #include <qlabel.h>

It's the name of the class.

Besides, C++98 standardised on having no suffixes back in 1997.

> I think I read something explaining that choice at the time, but I'm enable
> to find it again...
> 
> Just curious, no intent to start a flame :-)

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