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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 24 February 2020 03:30:25 PST André Somers wrote:
> > In any case, I do understand why Qt added emit as a keyword 25 years ago.
> > But today, we do have IDEs which should be able to figure out on the fly
> > whether a function call is a signal emission (as they already do for
> > virtual vs non virtual methods). So why don’t we move the over to be a
> > tooling problem? Simply highlight signal emissions differently in the IDE
> > and you don’t need a keyword for it anymore. It’s also safer, as the
> > keyword can be forgotten or applied to the wrong places.
>
> You seem to assume everyone used QtCreator as their IDE of choice. That is
> not a reasonable assumption I think.

It is a reasonable feature request for ALL IDEs to understand what a Qt signal 
is.

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