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

[Ville Voutilainen]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 at 15:52, Ville Voutilainen
<ville.voutilainen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Hah, except it of course doesn't work with my_signal that returns void.