[Development] The age-old T* foo vs. T *foo

[Vitaly Fanaskov]

Hi,


I think that this discussion is pointless. Style is mostly the matter of 
preferences, but:

1) We have a huge code base with the certain code style.

2) We have official guidelines.

3) We have a tool for auto code formatting.


I don't see any good reasons to change the entire code base or make it 
inconsistent, and adjust docs and tools. If a person is not used to the 
Qt style, he or she might use clang formatting tool for this.

On 10/17/19 8:04 PM, Ville Voutilainen wrote:
> Since we are about to do a major version upgrade, should be stop being
> a special snowflake in the C++ world and start attaching pointer-stars
> and reference-ampersands to the type instead of to the variable?
>
> As a quick example of how our current style is just odd, consider
>
> for (auto &&x : oink)
>
> Sure, that's in accordance with our style. It looks very out of place when
> coming back to our code after adventures in other code. Quick reading
> of it tends to suggest that it's a by-value thing since quick eyes see
> auto without any decorations.
>
> I don't expect the transition, should we agree to have it, to be easy
> for people accustomed to the Qt style. I also don't have any sort of numbers
> about whether our style is used elsewhere. In contrast, people with lots
> of exposure to non-Qt style tend to have to fight ours, it just doesn't come
> naturally.
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Best Regards,

Fanaskov Vitaly
Senior Software Engineer

The Qt Company / Qt Quick and Widgets Team