[Development] Future of java-style iterators?

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Hello,

On 03/12/2023 21:56, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> Some days ago we got an error report in the forum about QHashIterator,
> turned out to be a missing documentation for a complete class which
> remained unnoticed since Qt 6.0
> (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-119461).
> This leads to the question if we should deprecate all java-style
> iterators since they seem to be a) not widely used and b) it looks like
> we don't support them in a way we should.
> What do you think?

While any "serious" code should build under QT_NO_JAVA_STYLE_ITERATORS¹, 
how much maintenance do they cost us? There's been virtually 0 changes 
on them since Qt 6.0.

¹ We should of course open the chapter of having something that defines 
all these QOL macros. No one should be using the Java iterators. Here's 
a draft:
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/522833

My 2 c,
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