> Anyway. To summarize my position in the original context: QVariant > is as it is. It is convenient at times, and it is already too convenient > at times. "Easy type conversion" is a different use case than "Type > agnostic storage". QVariant does a bit of both, only the second one > has ever been useful _to me_, I have been bitten by the first. As > there are typically also more direct ways to convert types than to > pass through QVariant, I consider the possibility to do type conversion > through QVariant a mis-feature, and adding even more conversion > abilities would be a step into the wrong direction _for me_. This is > a personal opinion.
I certainly can't recall any place in Creator where a conversion via QVariant was intended. I can though recall several instances where such a conversion was the source of bugs. daniel _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
