On 5/4/19 5:00 AM, interest-requ...@qt-project.org wrote:
Unless Qt supports negative indexes (like python's [-1]) I would have thought
this would be an int. Thanks for catching that everyone.
I'm assuming you made a typo there and meant to say "uint"? Regardless here's
the official reason why Qt uses "int" for container indices:
https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/2013-September/008592.html
There are an awful lot of places where Qt uses int when it should be
uint like when returning the size() of something. It makes for a lot of
documentation in the embedded system world where every static_cast<>()
has to be documented in the code and justified in a formal code review
which produces even more documentation. It also makes for some fancy
dancing on 32-bit embedded targets where a uint would be big enough to
hold the size of something but an int falls short.
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