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

Shawn Rutledge Shawn.Rutledge at qt.io
Fri Feb 21 13:59:28 CET 2020


> On 21 Feb 2020, at 13:30, Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis at qt.io> wrote:
> 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.

Invent a naming convention?  Add a feature to Creator that makes it clear, like different syntax highlighting or a little symbol next to it?

(Some people name every slot function starting with the word “slot” to make clear what it is.)



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