[Development] The future of smart pointers in Qt API

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 01/02/20 09:27, Allan Sandfeld Jensen ha scritto:
> 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.

The counter argument is: it would imply that the _pointer_ escapes the 
_scope_.

This conversation is 9 years too old -- the ship has sailed. 
std::unique_ptr is the vocabulary type that is on every C++ book 
teaches, every C++ talk explains, every C++ project uses (all over the 
place inside Qt itself). Unless some extraordinary argument appears, 
that's the name that Qt should also use.

My 2 c,
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