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

[Sérgio Martins]

On 2020-02-28 18:32, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Friday, 28 February 2020 07:28:34 PST Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> If we had to do it over again, it might make sense to follow Python 
>> and
>> make signals *objects* instead of *methods*. Then the code would look 
>> like:
>> 
>>   this->emptied.emit(...);
> 
> Binary compatibility issue: if it's a member of the class, it can't be 
> added
> or removed without changing the class's size and layout, so it would 
> tie our
> hands for future improvements.
> 
> You'd see instead:
> 
>     this->emptied().emit(...);
>     connect(foo, foo->emptied(), ...);


I like this, then we could finally (and without hacks) have protected 
and private signals like in Qt 4.

Would also solve the need for qOverload ?


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