[PATCH] Revised patch for KUser

[Frerich Raabe]

On Tuesday 08 June 2004 15:54, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 00:50, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:40:00PM +0200, Jan Schäfer wrote:
> > > +  QValueList<KUserGroup> groups() const;
> > > +  QValueList<KUser> users() const;
> >
> > now that is look at this, i'm not sure whether it is a good idea to
> > return lists of KUser[Group], as this may be excessively expensive.
>
> QValueList is implicit shared with copy on write semantic, isn't it?

It is, but it's a little dangerous:

for ( QValueList<KUser>::Iterator it = users().begin(); it != users().end(); 
++it);

That loop has totally random behaviour, since each call of "users()" yields a 
different QValueList, so you're comparing "it" from one list with "end()" 
from another (usually you get an endless loop). If you had returned the 
valuelist by reference-to-const, that would not have happened (and for the 
client, the difference is transparent).

- Frerich