New methods for KTimeZone

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Sat Jun 9 18:48:26 BST 2007


David Jarvie wrote:
>> Also, the following two functions:
>> KDateTime::Spec       KDateTime::Spec::LocalZone()                   {
>> return Spec(KDateTime::LocalZone); }
>> KDateTime::Spec       KDateTime::Spec::OffsetFromUTC(int utcOffset)  {
>> return Spec(KDateTime::OffsetFromUTC, utcOffset); }
>>
>> are out of the API style guidelines because they begin with a capital
>> letter.
>
>Yes, they vary from the style guidelines, but for a reason. There are
> two public constant data members (the two non-POD items you mention
> above) and these two methods, all of which have the same names as the
>KDateTime::SpecType enum members. They have the same names so as to
> indicate the close connection between them and the enum members.

Sounds like they'll benefit from implicit calls, say, in about 10 
years :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++0x#Implicit_function_call

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