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

Ville Voutilainen ville.voutilainen at gmail.com
Mon Feb 24 14:52:32 CET 2020


On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 at 14:42, Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at qt.io> wrote:
> But we could convey the information that this is a signal you’re calling *reliably* through other means. This implies that the keyword is not required.

Was the keyword ever required? Seems like it's just a taste difference from a

qEmit(my_signal());

to write

emit my_signal();

The first one can be namespaced, and thus its name lookup controlled.
It also never clashes with a member name.
Its worse aesthetics aside, if we'd had that since the beginning, we
wouldn't be talking about the current clashes
with std::osyncstream.


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