[Development] Proposal: Deprecate QVector in Qt 6

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

On 4/24/20 9:03 PM, Jason H wrote:
>> In fact, it is-a QList<QString>. What's the problem here with its naming?
> 
> Because I can't QSringList{"me", "you"}.join() with a QList.

I didn't say that it's a typedef for QList<QString>, but is-a -- it 
inherits, precisely to provide that kind of convenience.

> Thinking outsize of the box...
> It seems that all this is cause d by someone wanting to store a pointer to an item in QVector, which may be reallocted and therfore have moved.

All this => what's this?

> It seem then that the only thing to do is to use a traditional QList, or return only some kind of ref which will be a stable reference to the item.
> QStableRef r9 = vector[9];
> vector.resize()
> // r9 is updated during resize() and still points to that it was meant to.
> It's not good practice to store a ref to something that can be realloated. I don't know how you can prevent people from doing that with offering T& operator[](int i);

QList today offers exactly that. In array-of-pointers-mode it also 
offers stability of references.

Thanks,
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Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer
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