[Development] Proposal: Deprecate QVector in Qt 6

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dijous, 23 d’abril de 2020, a les 9:43:33 CEST, Simon Hausmann va escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> In dev we've had QVector being an alias for QList for a while now. For the
> 6.0 release this particular topic (QList/QVector) suggests two goals (among
> others):
> 
>     (1) Use the same type throughout the public API of Qt.
> 
>     (2) Make it easy for our users to maintain a code base that works with
> Qt 5 and 6.
> 
> 
> In the light of those two goals, I think we should keep using QList as the
> type in the public API. I don't think we should do a search and replace
> activity and switch to QVector. In the light of that, I would like to
> propose simply deprecating QVector and stick to QList everywhere.
> 
> 
> What do you think?

As taught in Computer Science/Engineering courses:
 * QList is not a list
 * QVector is a vector

Compating to std:: types:
 * QList is not comparable to a std::list
 * QVector is comparable to a std::vector

Personally i think it makes sense to keep the QVector name.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 
> Simon


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