[Qt-creator] Whacky thought of the day

[Jason H]

I just got done going over the module slides. I hadn't heard of them, but they seem like a really good idea.

If you think headers are a good thing, read them:
http://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-11/Gregor-Modules.pdf


Why do you need over 1 meg of headers for an 80 byte file? People turn to PCH, but that's just doubling down on a mistake. 



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 From: Jason H <scorp1us at yahoo.com>
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Headers are not a feature. They violate DRY, and create additional maintenance. They are a hack to deal with C++ compiler limitations to provide quick type checking and parameter matching. If it could be done over (and it has with Java, Python, and C#) they would not continue to separate prototypes from implementation. Your tools should do the work, not you. There is nothing the separation adds, other than additional work an chance for errors. 



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 From: Vojtěch Král <vojtech at kral.hk>
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Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Whacky thought of the day
 


Hi,
I don't really see why you would want to do something like that. Headers are a feature, not a bug. I don't think many people would regard that as an "elevation".
Regards, VK
 
On 2014-03-04 01:17, Jason H 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++?
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