[Development] Proposing to change https://wiki.qt.io/API_Design_Principles#Enums_in_classes to require scoped enums
Marco Bubke
marco.bubke at qt.io
Sat Jan 18 00:12:36 CET 2025
Hi
On 16.01.25 11:58, Marc Mutz via Development wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Groundhog Day...
>
> Like every API review, so also in 6.9, we have the discussions between
> proponents of scoped vs. unscoped enums in class scope.
One little side note. Putting enumerations into classes can introduce a
dependency. Using them in mocks is much harder because there are easily
hard linking dependencies on the library and not only a header file with
the enumerations.
So what about moving them out of the class into an extra header file?
Like
TouchPoint::Pressed -> Touch::Pressed
enum class Touch : int {
Pressed,
...
};
They than could be forward declared too.
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