On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 12:25, Philippe <philw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Almost all the time I second your positions, but not this time ;) > > QList is historically a cause of ambiguity, and Qt6 is the chance to get rid > of that.
Indeed. QList causes confusion for the uninitiated that are aware of the differences between std::vector and std::list (as in Why Do These People Use Lists Everywhere? Why don't they use Vectors?). Now we have papered over the problem, but the name remains problematic, because QList is not a list. In Qt5, QList is sometimes a list, sometimes a vector, but in Qt6 it's never a list. Switching the QVector implementation over to a type called QList and aliasing QVector to that with the intent of getting rid of the QVector name seems exactly backwards to me. I would think the better approach would be to keep dev as it is, and deprecate and eventually remove QList. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
