[Development] The future of smart pointers in Qt API

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 01/02/2020 07.31, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> It is still a terrible name. Unique pointer refers to something 
> std::unique_ptr can abstractly achieve, but not what it actually is.

It refers to something that had *better* be achieved, or else you're
using it wrong.

The *ownership* is unique. There is, at any given time, exactly *one*
entity which *uniquely* holds ownership of the pointer.

This is in contrast to a *shared* pointer, where the ownership is, well,
*shared*.

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Matthew