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

[Kai Köhne]

Hi,

Since this is arguably as much about taste as it is about technicalities, I thought it might be interesting to do a quick poll in the form of a survey:

https://www.1ka.si/a/255723

Disclaimer: Qt Project is not a democracy, so let's not pretend that whatever gets most clicks gets implemented in the end. Still, I'm curious ...

Kai

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of
> Ville Voutilainen
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2020 2:53 PM
> To: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at qt.io>
> Cc: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>; Qt development mailing
> list <development at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Development] A modest proposal: disable lower-case keywords
> (emit, foreach, forever, signals, slots) by default
> 
> 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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