[Interest] Klocwork errors in Qt

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 9 December 2019 05:27:06 PST Roland Hughes wrote:
> auto will be removed though. A bad idea that cannot be fixed. So were
> trigraphs and digraphs.
> 
> There is a dramatic falsehood behind the philosophy of always using the
> latest and "coolest" language "features" because they get removed. How
> many are compiling code forcing c++11 with deprecation warnings turned
> off because they have a big codebase using std:auto_ptr.
> 
> The same will happen to auto. A bad idea that can't be fixed.

Trigraphs were removed because they had bad semantics. Digraphs were not 
removed and they are still allowed in C++. See
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15736282/what-is-this-smiley-with-beard-expression/15736293

As for auto, you're making a prediction based on absolutely no knowledge of 
the committee. I don't know who you've been talking to, but those of the 
committee *I* have been have shown absolutely no indication of wanting to 
remove auto. So even if you're right (and I don't think you are), it's not 
going to be deprecated at least until C++26, which means we have some 12 years 
before we'd have to stop using it.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel System Software Products