On 2020-02-16 19:32, Thiago Macieira wrote:
On Saturday, 15 February 2020 06:23:52 PST Marc Mutz via Development
wrote:
C++20 will contain new classes with emit() member functions
(wg21.link/P0053). While that will only pose problems for users that
include the new <osyncstream> header after (almost) any Qt header,
this
should serve as a second shot across the bows (after namespace
boost::signals) that we should change something.
Orthogonal to your request: can we ask C++20 to change the name of this
function? We've been #define'ing emit for nearly 30 years.
I did. There was no consensus for a change (not by a long shot).
If it had been just the basic_syncbuf version, which returns bool, it
might have been possible to change that to try_emit, but the
basic_osyncstream version sets failbit, and returns void, so naming that
one try_emit would be awkward, and a full bikeshdding about a different
stem than 'emit' was asking for too much.
Thanks,
Marc
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