[Development] Proposing to change https://wiki.qt.io/API_Design_Principles#Enums_in_classes to require scoped enums

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 20 January 2025 02:18:34 Pacific Standard Time Schimkowitsch Robert 
wrote:
> As a user of Qt, I really hate this restriction.

It's a parsing problem. moc does not parse what it doesn't have to and thus 
doesn't remember enumeration values that were outside the class.

> But what about Q_ENUM_NS and Q_FLAG_NS?

Those work, but they show up in the namespace's meta object and you must have 
the Q_NAMESPACE macro.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Principal Engineer - Intel DCAI Platform & System Engineering
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