For sure, one very rarely sees T *foo in C++ projects. Not without a reason.
Philippe On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 21:04:36 +0300 Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since we are about to do a major version upgrade, should be stop being > a special snowflake in the C++ world and start attaching pointer-stars > and reference-ampersands to the type instead of to the variable? > > As a quick example of how our current style is just odd, consider > > for (auto &&x : oink) > > Sure, that's in accordance with our style. It looks very out of place when > coming back to our code after adventures in other code. Quick reading > of it tends to suggest that it's a by-value thing since quick eyes see > auto without any decorations. > > I don't expect the transition, should we agree to have it, to be easy > for people accustomed to the Qt style. I also don't have any sort of numbers > about whether our style is used elsewhere. In contrast, people with lots > of exposure to non-Qt style tend to have to fight ours, it just doesn't come > naturally. > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development