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

[Thiago Macieira]

On sábado, 2 de julho de 2016 12:40:53 PDT Stephen Kelly wrote:
> So, by sticking to lots of raw loops, you're actually actively excluding 
> other parts of the C++ community from participating. I don't have numbers
> to  qualify it, but there seems to me to be a much larger community
> following modern C++ practices than following Qt practices on questions
> like this.

The converse is also true: by using auxiliary functions to do things where a 
simple loop would do, you're excluding a sizeable community that has never 
encountered those functions. Especially if those auxiliary types and functions 
have different and sometimes bewildering names, different from Qt's.

Like you, I don't have numbers. But I can tell you one thing for sure: that 
community that follows non-Qt practices is not here. It would be nice to 
attract them, but not at the expense of losing the people we already have and 
are familiar with Qt internals.

> I encourage you and everyone else to dive into it.

No, thanks. You will also see me iterating over QChar and char instead of 
using those algorithms or even some of Qt's. See QUrlPrivate::parse, my recent 
changes to QTzTimeZonePrivate, for examples.

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