[Development] Use of Standard Library containers in Qt source code

[Marc Mutz]

On Friday 01 July 2016 20:36:56 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> The use of the Standard Library member "empty" is highly confusing at
> first  sight because it does not follow the Qt naming guidelines. It's
> even more confusing because the next line has "isEmpty". When I read this
> code, I had to wonder if that "empty" was a verb in the imperative,
> meaning the author was trying to remove all elements from the container.

Don't make this about the STL. Your arguments trivally extend to any third-
party code.

So what you are actually proposing is to not use any third-party code in Qt 
unless it is wrapped in a Qtsy API first.

This is a bit over the top, isn't it? We want to allow our users to stay in 
the cozy Qt bubble for their own projects. As implementers of that bubble, we 
have no right to stay in it ourselves if doing so would be to the detriment of 
our users. And even creating an API wrapper is to the detriment of our users, 
because it requires resources that are then no longer available to fix real 
problems.

If this is straw poll, I'm voting for Option 5. C++ programmers (those that 
wish to implement a C++ library) should be familiar with the STL.

Thanks,
Marc

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