[Development] override keyword on destructors
Sérgio Martins
sergio.martins at kdab.com
Mon Aug 20 14:08:36 CEST 2018
Hi,
Looks like some 'override' keywords crept into a few destructors. This
is probably because clang-tidy warns about it (and now QtCreator).
IMO we should avoid it, as it's misleading. Dtors are a special case and
have completely different semantics. They don't replace their base class
dtors. They're chained instead.
This is not 100% consensual, some people like to use it.
But it's discouraged by the Cpp Core Guidelines [1] ; gcc's
-Wsuggest-override doesn't suggest it for dtors and neither does clang's
-Winconsistent-missing-override.
So clang-tidy is the one odd out.
I'll update the coding conventions if nobody opposes.
[1] -
https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/blob/master/CppCoreGuidelines.md#Rh-override
Regards,
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