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

[Iván Todorovich]

There could be a precompiler flag like QT_THROW_EXEPTIONS to
enable/disable and maintain source compatibility with old
applications, AND keep evolving at the same time.

2011/5/13 Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>:
> 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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