[Development] Binary Compatibility question (KDE)

[Thiago Macieira]

Em sex 28 fev 2014, às 11:10:41, André Somers escreveu:
> To me, it doesn't sound reasonable to expect an unqualified &func to
> stay source compatible. If you want your code to be source compatible
> with future vesions and you use function pointers, I'd suggest to always
> use the longer, ugly cast version. I don't think it is unreasonable that
> in the future overloads are introduced for existing functions,
> especially for non-slots.
> 
> BC is IMHO a big enough constraint. Lets not bind our hands even further...

For most functions, I agree.

However, we need to be careful about signals. Since they are very, very often 
used in:
	connect(obj, &Klass::somethingChanged, ...)

We need to ensure that we aren't adding overloads to signals.

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