[Development] QTextStream::readLine(0) is an ambiguous overload in 5.5

[Al-Khanji Louai]

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> On Monday 18 May 2015 12:17:32 Koehne Kai wrote:
> > Can you elaborate? We're talking about in/out parameters here, where
> > raw pointers IMO are still perfectly valid. What do you expect the
> > signature  of readLine(QString *line) to be in C++14?
> 
> QString readLine(QString &&reuseThisStringsCapacity);
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Ooh, a bike shed thread! I vote that we implement N4282 and make the function signature

bool readLine(std::observer_ptr<QString>, qint64);

This is obviously better since we now can report failures *AND* make object lifetimes explicit!

</snark>

:)

Louai