[Development] RFC: QVariant changes in Qt6

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 24/11/19 18:57, Olivier Goffart ha scritto:
> The issue is that there is lots of use of these (esp. the most common ones like
> toString and toInt.) Removing all uses be a huge work for no obvious reasons.
> (And i was told they are now recommended by clazy)

The reason was avoiding the template bloat of the instantiations of 
value<T> in client code, while such instantiations exist already in 
QtCore under a "different form" -- if T is int, QString, etc. then 
there's toInt(), toString() and so on. (I'm not sure of the overall 
impact, though.)

If we can use extern templates for the same purpose, then we could drop 
the clazy warning for Qt 6, keep the toFoo() as porting aids and just 
make them inline calls to value<Foo>().

My 2 c,
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