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

Sune Vuorela nospam at vuorela.dk
Sat Jul 2 09:53:47 CEST 2016


On 2016-07-01, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 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. 

Hah. I found some code in a large project the other day. The code is a
monstrosity of stl, mfc and qt code.
There was an empty() function. It returned void. and was not const.

Yes. it was clearing its internal collections and states.

/Sune




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