[Interest] Are slots even needed these days?

[Curtis Mitch]

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> Sent: Wednesday, 16 March 2016 3:51 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Interest] Are slots even needed these days?
> 
> Il 16/03/2016 15:24, Nikos Chantziaras ha scritto:
> > I can connect to Foo::bar either way. If I don't intend to ever use
> > the old-style connect syntax, is there a reason to have "public slots:"
> anymore?
> 
> It's still needed if you want to expose those methods to QML / scripting,
> use QMetaObject::invokeMethod, and possibly some other cases.

Perhaps threading, where queued connections are necessary?

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