[Development] Upgrading the sources to C++11 keywords (Q_NULLPTR, etc.)

Mathias Hasselmann mathias at taschenorakel.de
Mon Feb 9 15:46:20 CET 2015



Am 09.02.2015 um 15:40 schrieb Marc Mutz:
> On Monday 09 February 2015 09:54:12 Smith Martin wrote:
>> This is the kind of thing we should add to the documentation, but can you
>> elaborate? I mean, illustrate the meaning of "locality of reference,"
>> "wildly mixing insertions, lookups, and removals," and "batch updates and
>> separate them from lookups, time-wise."
>
> There is a book, Effective STL, and an online paper, "What every programmer
> needs to know about memory". I don't think that it's the job of the Qt docs to
> explain "what every programmer needs to know about memory", because it is not
> specific to Qt.
>
> The Qt documentation also doesn't give many details on Unicode. It's assumed
> that people using it know the basics.
>
> You will also not find in the Qt docs that signed integer overflow is undefined
> behaviour.
>
> The Qt docs are not a CS text book :)
>
I totally agree, but how about adding a section with recommended 
readings to some prominent place instead?

Ciao,
Mathias



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