[Development] A modest proposal: disable lower-case keywords (emit, foreach, forever, signals, slots) by default
Allan Sandfeld Jensen
kde at carewolf.com
Fri Feb 21 12:44:56 CET 2020
On Friday, 21 February 2020 12:28:29 CET Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
wrote:
> Il 21/02/20 12:15, Ville Voutilainen ha scritto:
> >> without any annotation is not what we want. We'd miss vital information
> >> and reduce readability.>
> > Can you please explain what that vital information is?
>
> That control is leaving the "local" function, and *anything* can happen
> at that point. Including fun stuff, like finding "this" to be deleted
> (pgrep for QPointer.*this in QWidget code). It's an important annotation
> for a developer IMNSHO.
>
That information could be preserved if we named the signal functions
emitSignalName instead, though that would look worse at the binding.
'Allan
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