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

Matthew Woehlke mwoehlke.floss at gmail.com
Thu Mar 25 15:40:00 CET 2021


On 24/03/2021 18.25, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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.

Wow, you *totally* misunderstood that.

QList in Qt5 is mostly fine (and there's always QVector if needed).

Qt 6 got rid of a useful container type.

-- 
Matthew


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