[Qt-creator] Required conventions (was: Documentation for plugin development)

[Daniel Teske]

On Tuesday 26 November 2013 10:43:24 Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> On 26 November 2013 10:10, Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger at digia.com> wrote:
> > * Please make sure to follow the coding style.
> > http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qtcreator-extending/coding-style.html
> > has the details.
> > (...)
> > There usually are lots of misplaced * and & chars in newly
> > submitted code, too.
> 
> Or, one day, Qt will drop its C with classes heritage
> and allow folks to apply C++ semantic and emphasize actual type
> instead of syntax of declaration as C folks do.
That isn't the reason. The reason is that it makes the * or & stand out more. 
Humans pay more attention to the first character of a word thatn to the last 
one. So putting the *, & in front of a word instead at the end increases 
readability. Since the qt coding style strongly advises against putting 
multiple variable declarations on one line, there's also no draw back to that.

daniel