[Development] The future of smart pointers in Qt API

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Samstag, 1. Februar 2020 00:31:17 CET Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> On 31/01/2020 23:47, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> >> The question stays: how do we call a unique_ptr equivalent?
> > 
> > QScopedPointer? ;)
> 
> That name was precisely the reason why the idea of adding movability was
> shot down. I know something about it: I proposed that some 6 years ago!
> 
To me the name is still perfect. It makes perfect sense. Just because it is 
movable doesn't mean you move the object itself, a move moves the content of 
the object. So each move triggers a move of the payload of a scoped pointer to 
another scoped pointer in another scope. 

I never understood why anyone would think the name would make that impossible.

'Allan