[Development] QHash iteration vs std::unordered_map

[Thiago Macieira]

Em domingo, 16 de abril de 2017, às 08:05:21 PDT, Mark Gaiser escreveu:
> That again makes me wonder, why did Qt diverge from that?

We didn't diverge. We never had that. The Qt style predates the Standard 
Library having relevance in Qt. When the first QHash-like class was added, it 
was just like that.

Also remember that at the time, you wouldn't think of a Standard Library 
associative container as such. It was just a sequential container that held a 
std::pair, with some convenience functions for searching the first of the pair. 
Returning a pair was a consequence of that. I don't know if it was intentional 
thinking, or it just happened.

> And... if Qt plans to change it in Qt6?

No, cannot due to source compatibility. Ever.

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