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

[Ville Voutilainen]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 22:17, Matthew Woehlke <mwoehlke.floss at gmail.com> wrote:
> Right, and when I realized that, it got me wondering, how many people
> will need to call that specific function that are *also* using Qt *and*
> will be unwilling to use Q_NO_KEYWORDS to work around the issue?

You're getting back to the reason why renaming osyncstream::emit() was
unconvincing, here. ;)

But the reason why we are talking about this is to search for a
solution where such clashes
don't happen in the future. Yes, we know how to deal with
boost::signals, yes, we know how
to deal with X11 Status clashing with QSettings::Status, but maybe we
shouldn't have to deal
with these clashes that are our own doing because it's us defining the
problematic macros.
(In the X11 case, it's X11, not us.) We could be better-behaving
citizens of the ecosystem,
instead of saying "well we've been bad citizens for a long time,
please just accommodate us,
here's hacks that allow you to circumvent the problems we cause".