[Development] QVariant comparison in Qt6

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 17 September 2020 16:15:47 PDT Bernhard Lindner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> There was a discussion about the decision to deprecate (remove?) QVariant
> comparison (<,>) in Qt6 completely.
> 
> Has anything changed for Qt6 (especially regarding comparison of equal
> and/or convertible types)? Is the complete deprecation still the latest
> decision?

Yes, it's changed; no, it's not deprecation.

What's been removed is the conversion. Aside from the numeric types, comparing 
two variants of different types will always result in false. If you want to 
compare across types, convert one to the other's type or to a common third 
type. You know what data you put in there and you should know what conversions 
can be lossy or not.

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