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

[Marc Mutz]

On Monday 09 February 2015 20:10:44 André Pönitz wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 09:36:46AM +0100, Marc Mutz wrote:
> > I find Q_NULLPTR *beautiful* (bautyful is deeper than pretty), because I
> > know at some point we will be able to just s/Q_NULLPTR/nullptr/. That's
> > not possible with 0 (not even with NULL (could be C code)), so I don't
> > see the point in continuing to use 0.
> 
> At some time you will be able to ran clang-modernize with the
> Use-Nullptr transformation or something similar.
> 
> Until then your attempts your tic to replace 0 by Q_NULLPTR as "white
> space fixes" will only convert a tiny fraction of the code base,
> introduce yet-another-non-uniformly-used-idiom.
> 
> Diversity is good in biology. Less so in code.

By the same token, we should stop fixing code formatting "mistakes" in passing, 
since we could just run clang-format.

The difference is that in the in-passing model, the code history isn't 
clobbered with "reformat" commits.

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