On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 19:53, Edward Welbourne <[email protected]> wrote: > Putting the * or & to the left of the space promotes the lazy reading of > a declaration as being > > type name; > > which works just fine for the most common cases, but lulls readers into > using a mental model that will leave them entirely unprepared for the > subtleties that arise when anything trickier happens.
This logical argument doesn't work. There's evidently no such lull, nor does putting the type-meta-modifiers next to the variable name result in a deeper understanding of how declarators work, again evidently. However, read below. > And, in any case, it is senseless to change this in a whole code-base. Agreed. It would indeed be a massive change, so there are very few opportunities to make such a change, and as time passes on, they get weaker and weaker due to sheer inertia. We are, apparently, past that point. I am going to admit that we are, and I would like to emphasize that I don't think it's a passive-aggressive admission of defeat. Changing almost-every-line-everywhere is something I speak against of in other contexts, like re-indenting, so I appreciate and agree with what Eddy and Andre are saying, for the most important parts. The only last straw I have is that I don't think the technical arguments for the status quo make much sense, but consistency and inertia matter. But, as I tend to say, and what always makes Simon chuckle, I can live with that. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
