inefficient QString coding practice

Tobias Koenig tokoe at kde.org
Sun Mar 14 14:34:42 GMT 2004


On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 03:03:07PM +0100, Lars Knoll wrote:
> On Saturday 13 March 2004 20:05, Tobias Koenig wrote:
Hi Lars,

> > > if(str == QLatin1String("foo")) { ... }
> >
> > Hmm, and you think the lazy developer will type 'QLatin1String' for
> > every short "foobar" string?!?
> > Can't we use a shorter name? Such a long name disturbs the whole code
> > layout.
> 
> Currently we have QString::fromLatin1(...). Is that better? 
No, and that's the only reason why I never use it ;)

> You can always use a typedef if you think the length is really disturbing. I 
> still prefer long but descriptive names to short but unclear ones.
me too, but not when you have to write it that often like this one.

Ciao,
Tobias
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