[Development] Removing overloaded signals in Qt6

[Ville Voutilainen]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 17:52, Sérgio Martins via Development
<development at qt-project.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> The Qt5 PMF connect syntax is wonderful and very elegant compared to Qt
> 4.
> Unless, ofc, you have overloaded signals, which makes it painful to
> write and read. Not even qOverload makes it look much better.
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> I suggest we rename such signals, as KDE is already doing for KF6 (maybe
> leave the old signatures there, to reduce Qt6 SIC)
> There's also a new clazy check 'overloaded-signal' to help finding them.
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> Relevant bug report: QTBUG-47225
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> I know there are downsides, but keeping things as they are is just
> worse.
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> Signals and slots are the bread of butter of Qt. Syntax for overloading
> signals is just too much of a barrier for new-comers, who currently
> aren't
> even able to connect a QComboBox without much hassle.

Seems like a splendid idea to me, showing even advanced programmers
that they need
to take an address of a member function with a cast seems to baffle
them. Any thoughts
on overloaded slots, or overloaded member functions as slot-targets?
The latter are a tad
harder to diagnose.