[Development] The future of smart pointers in Qt API

[Konstantin Shegunov]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 12:15 PM Vitaly Fanaskov <vitaly.fanaskov at qt.io>
wrote:

> I think, if we decide to re-implement parent-child model using smart
> pointers, we would not use unique pointers at all. Even in a methods
> like QObject::makeChild (because ownership is already defined). Shared +
> weak pointers make perfect sense here.


You have to be really crafty. Allocating on the stack is a thing, you know,
even for parent-child trees, so how do you intend to handle that? Are we
again in "forget the stack and new everything" land?
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