[Development] A modest proposal: disable lower-case keywords (emit, foreach, forever, signals, slots) by default

[Mitch Curtis]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of
> Ville Voutilainen
> Sent: Friday, 21 February 2020 12:16 PM
> To: Alex Blasche <alexander.blasche at qt.io>
> Cc: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] A modest proposal: disable lower-case
> keywords (emit, foreach, forever, signals, slots) by default
> 
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 10:42, Alex Blasche <alexander.blasche at qt.io> wrote:
> > I think a fallback to
> >
> > somethingChanged()
> >
> > 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?

How can you tell if it's a signal being emitted or just a function call without the emit syntax? With the emit syntax before the signal emission, it's immediately obvious that it's a signal. Not all signals follow the *Changed() naming convention, nor should they, so it becomes even less obvious in those cases.
 
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