[Qt-creator] Whacky thought of the day

[Steve Atkins]

On Mar 3, 2014, at 4:17 PM, Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com> wrote:

> So Qt comes along and helps kick C++ into the modern era.  I was wondering if we could use Qt Creator to address one of my remaining complaints of C++.
> 
> I really like languages like Python, C#, and Java where there is only an implementation file. While we can't get rid of headers, it would be cool if we could define a class file that gets split by QtCreator or qmake that would prepare the .h and .cpp files from a unified file. 
> 
> Creator helps with the maintaining the header and the C with the light bulb, but this isn't as elegant as having one file that controls both. I'm wondering if its possible and f clang would be any help in reaching this new level of elevating C++?

Sounds like you’re looking for modules.

http://isocpp.org/blog/2012/11/modules-update-on-work-in-progress-doug-gregor

Cheers,
  Steve