[Development] How qAsConst and qExchange lead to qNN

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Nov 10 01:00:20 CET 2022


A. Pönitz wrote:
> [And since we are at it: It would ease my life (but possibly hamper the
> life of my cardiologist) if you wouldn't call it "Qt NIH API". This is
> an open insult to people who actively designed these APIs _with
> different goals_ than the STL. I personally think it's completely fine
> if you don't agree with these different goals, but then please accept
> that these goals exist, too]

Not to mention that some of the Qt APIs actually predate their STL 
equivalent, making the STL version the NIH one.

        Kevin Kofler



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