[Development] Go's "defer" statement for C++/Qt

[Alexander Akulich]

Hi Volker,

I have no idea about Go, but deferred signal emission is somewhat
useful in async programming (at least in my practice). In that case,
there is a need to 'defer' execution to continue after the control is
returned (usually in EventLoop via QMetaObject::invokeMethod(...,
Qt::QueuedConnection). A cleaner approach would be appreciated.

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 8:02 PM Volker Hilsheimer
<volker.hilsheimer at qt.io> wrote:
>
> Ahoy,
>
> In what little development I’ve done in golang, I appreciated the “defer” statement as a means to write cleaner code. Basically, defer schedules a statement for execution when the stack unwinds.
>
> https://tour.golang.org/flowcontrol/12
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> We have several specialized helper classes in Qt for similar purposes, f.ex QMutexLocker and friends, or the internal QBoolBlocker [1]. Seeing the various specialized classes we have, I thought that something generic in Qt could be useful to have (although our specialised classes provide some additional convenience and/or logic).
>
> So, I pushed a few lines code to
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> https://git.qt.io/vohilshe/qt_defer
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> Would like to hear what you think.
>
> Perhaps someone can find ways to make this more elegant without introducing tons of preprocessor/macro shenanigans, or perhaps even without depending on C++17's implicit template argument deduction (without enabling C++17 in the config this doesn't build for me, even though I don’t use auto in the template paramter list).
>
>
> Cheers,
> Volker
>
>
> [1] which was requested to be made public in https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-38575
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