[Development] Improving toInt, toLong, etc.

[Robert Knight]

> I'll write QOptional tomorrow or on Wednesday, after I've had the chance
> to read the proposal to C++14 (that was dropped).

What would the plan for handling value access on unset options be?
std::optional<>
throws an exception. I initially did the same when implementing an
Optional<T> class
but ran into the kind of issue described here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13777446/ios-how-to-get-stack-trace-of-an-unhandled-stdexception
qFatal() seems like the simple and obvious approach.

Regards,
Rob.

On 4 February 2014 03:40, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> Em seg 03 fev 2014, às 16:26:21, Thiago Macieira escreveu:
>> Sure. Adding Qt's dev list. I've begun the work, starting with making a
>> template version of those functions. See:
>>
>> https://codereview.qt-project.org/77277
>
> Make that:
>
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/77278
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/77279
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/77280
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/77281
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/77282
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/77277
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/77283
>
> 280 and 281 are dust-offs of code I've had for some time but had never
> submitted for review. It's good to get them out in the open.
>
> I'll write QOptional tomorrow or on Wednesday, after I've had the chance to
> read the proposal to C++14 (that was dropped). But I fear I won't have the
> time to solve the issue of mixing it with QVariant properly before the feature
> freeze.
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