[Development] QList

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 27/03/2017 21:03, André Pönitz ha scritto:
>>> vector<point> is an ordered collection of points, but a QVector can
>>> contain anything; QVector<void*> can even contain unlike things, which
>>> is truly a tuple. So the problem here is the name QVector. The basic
>>> collection should be called QTuple or QArray, and QVector should mean
>>> QTuple<QPoint>.
>> As Marc already told you, the problem here is that there's already 20+
>> years of experience in the C++ community with the name "vector"
>> indicating a very precise thing (which has nothing to do with geometry
>> or linear spaces).
> Since when is $SOME_COMMUNITY_WE_ARE_INTERESTED_IN is using $FEATURE
> since $ETERNITY a valid argument in this thread here?

When people started doing claims about "how things should be named (and
why)" (which, yes, itself was an unnecessary thread derailment. But I
didn't start *that*.)

Cheers,
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Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer
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