[Development] HEADS-UP: QStringLiteral

[Tor Arne Vestbø]

> On 21 Aug 2019, at 18:01, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, 21 August 2019 08:49:52 PDT Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:
>> I agree that this would mitigate the problem somewhat, but imagine writing
>> your code and being reminded every second:
> 
>>   warning: using “foo" is not optimal, you should be using
>> QEsotericLiteralStringViewV2NG
> 
> is that worse than Creator showing in yellow that "warning: comparison of 
> integers of different signs: unsigned long and int" ?
> 
> Or "macro name is a reserved identifier" in
> #define _GNU_SOURCE

Depends on your chosen warning level I guess. If you want -Wall -Wpedantic -Wextra ++ then sure, that’s what you’d expect. 

I would not want to have those “you’re using a fast, but not optimal version of the N string classes” warnings unless I was writing string heavy and performance sensitive code.

And if we can have the compiler automatically make the right choice for us we wouldn’t need any of those.

Tor Arne