[Development] RFC: QVariant changes in Qt6

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday, 24 November 2019 09:57:56 PST Olivier Goffart wrote:
> Adding a cast<T> function does not sound like a bad idea? But should it be
> done in Qt5.15 or Qt6. And should it return T or optional<T> (in case the
> conversion did not work)  or have a bool*ok=nullptr  parameter?

The problem with std::optional in Qt 5 is that you can't require it. So either 
you add an API behind #if (which is ok) or you have to wait for Qt 6.

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