[Development] QList

[André Pönitz]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 09:09:24PM +0200, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> 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*.)

So that was after the argument of QList being used for a decade by Qt users
was dismissed.

Good.

Andre'