[Interest] The willy-nilly deletion of convenience, methods

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 23 March 2021 09:02:04 PDT Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> On 23/03/2021 11.44, Volker Hilsheimer wrote:
> > I wished I had seen the level of energy y’all are putting right now
> > into this email thread over the last two years when we discussed
> > where to go with Qt 6, and when the work actually happened.
> 
> IIRC, I complained plenty about QList at the time. I wouldn't be
> surprised if I complained about QHash also.

And lo and behold, QList and QHash are completely rewritten for Qt 6, because 
of the major complaints that existed against them, especially against QList.

Most people using the new QList won't notice a difference at all.

The one thing that will catch people with the new QHash is the lack of 
stability of references. That is unfortunately a silent change.

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  Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering