On Thursday 11 June 2015 22:07:00 André Pönitz wrote: > To be blunt: Even though some of the existing patterns and conventions > are unfashionable in 2015, consistency is a value by itself. Any > partial "modernization" of the API destroys that consistency, and > therefore value. So even if "use pattern B instead of A" is > uncontroversial when considered isolated, it's not a given that using > B instead of A in new Qt API is a win. And that ignores the fact that > there's rarely an situaion of a B being uniformly better than an A.
Would you mind being more specific about what Pattern A and Pattern B you have in mind? Thanks, Marc -- Marc Mutz <[email protected]> | Senior Software Engineer KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH & Co.KG, a KDAB Group Company Tel: +49-30-521325470 KDAB - The Qt Experts _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
