[Qt5-feedback] new Qt5 - great! - but: What about exceptions?

[Keith Gardner]

If you don't add exceptions, could you at least add the ability to transport exceptions across thread boundaries?

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On Friday, 13 de May de 2011 21:02:30 szyk100 wrote:
> One of modern languages feature included in C++ are exceptions. 

Qt should remain mostly source compatible.

Adding exception safety is fine. Are you volunteering?

Changing Qt code to throw exceptions everywhere as a means of error-reporting isn't acceptable. That requires too many code changes in the applications' 
code.

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