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

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 21/02/20 09:23, Kai Köhne ha scritto:
> Another alternative is to actually use C++ attributes for this:
> 
>    [[qt::emit]] somethingChanged();
> 
> C++ attributes are required since C++11, and since C++17 the compiler is also required to just ignore one's it doesn't know [1]. Because it is part of the core language, It is also something every C++ IDE and tool does accept (and could even check for) ...

This is a tad verbose, but agreeable IFF we also introduce 
[[qt:::slots]], [[qt::invokable]], [[qt::property()]], and so on -- in 
other words: if we have a _consistent_ set of keywords...

Thanks,
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