[Development] Qt 5 types under consideration for deprecation / removal in Qt 6

[André Pönitz]

On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 10:39:09PM +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> > What about https://valdyas.org/fading/hacking/happy-porting/
> >
> >    "[...] none, not a single one of all of the reasons you want to
> > deprecate    Q_FOREACH is a reason I care even a little bit about.
> > It’s going to    be deprecated? Well, that’s a decision, and a dumb
> > one. It doesn’t    work on std containers, QVarLengthArray or C
> > arrays? I don’t use    it on those. It adds 100 bytes of text size?
> > Piffle. It makes it hard    to reason about the loop for you? I
> > don’t care.
> >
> >    What I do care is the 1559 places where we use Q_FOREACH in
> > Krita.     Porting this will take weeks. [...]"
> >
> > ?
> 
> This kind of porting could be automated with clang-based tool, if
> anyone cared to make it. This tool could automatically use
> qAsConst/std::as_const for non-const lvalues and add temporary
> variable for non-const rvalues, without user even knowing what the
> hell are lvalues and rvalues and other things Marc writes about.

The discussion would me much less heated if the people deprecating
would take care of the cleaning up.

Creating a tool that would take care of it would be close to
perfect in my book.

Andre'