[Qt-creator] Use of namespaces in Qt Creator's own code

[Christian Kandeler]

On 07/09/2013 01:05 PM, Koehne Kai wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: qt-creator-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org [mailto:qt-
>> creator-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of
>> Christian Kandeler
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 1:00 PM
>> To: qt-creator at qt-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Use of namespaces in Qt Creator's own code
>>
>> On 07/09/2013 11:11 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>>> to solve the clash problem, there are two approaches:
>>> - use an additional convention (ugly)
>>>     - FooNames::Foo
>>>     - Foo::FooClass
>>> - remove the redundancy
>>>     - Foo::Plugin
>>
>> Definitely the latter. In general, I've come to resent this "double namespacing"
>> that we do in a lot of places in Qt Creator (I am very much guilty of it too). It's
>> probably a combination of mistrusting the C++ language and excessive use of
>> using directives. How about  discouraging that for new plugins in the coding
>> conventions?
>
> ... only if the locator learns about namespaces, too.

Nice incentive, isn't it?


Christian