[Development] QtCS 2017 QtCore sessions

Ville Voutilainen ville.voutilainen at gmail.com
Sat Dec 2 18:54:44 CET 2017


On 2 December 2017 at 18:48, Marc Mutz <marc.mutz at kdab.com> wrote:
> If that analyis were true, you'd need to explain why it is, then, that the
> Qt containers now have more or less the same API as std ones, when in Qt 1
> they were very different. And why I keep needing to fight off QOptional.
..
> And, c'mon, std::optional's API is just not going to be topped by QOptional.
> What should they do? snake_case vs. camelCase? That's what we need to invest
> several man-days of development work in, to rename the functions and stick a
> Q in front of the class name?


There's one thing that a QOptional could do that std::optional can't:
be available for all Qt users
in a time span of a couple of months.



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