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

[André Somers]

On 02/03/2020 16:42, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> On 28/02/2020 15.33, Lars Knoll wrote:
>> This is all nice and fun to bike shed about, but I don’t think those
>> proposed solutions match the scope of the original problem (which
>> was relatively small). I don’t think a massive source compatibility
>> breakage is what we want, just because there is one std header using
>> emit as a method name.
> I read this as: let's not do anything. With which I agree.
>
>> And most of Qt’s signals are named in a way that makes it rather
>> obvious it’s a signal we’re looking at (e.g. fooChanged() or
>> clicked()), so there’s no need for an ‘emit’ in front to be clear.
> I don't see consensus here. On the contrary, the majority seems to feel
> that emit/Q_EMIT is useful.

+1

André