Updating our coding conventions and coding style for C++11

[David Jarvie]

On Thursday 16 Jan 2020 18:46:06 Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for "auto" I think we should always annotate it with const, *, and/or &
> where appropriate:
> 
> auto *something = new MyCustomType;
> auto *keyEvent = static_cast<QKeyEvent *>(event);
> const auto myList = QStringList({QLatin1String("FooThing"),
> QLatin1String("BarThing")});

This is a bad example of the use of auto. It can be more simply written 
without using auto:

const QStringList myList{QLatin1String("FooThing"),
QLatin1String("BarThing")};

> auto &barRef = foo[bar];
> 
> > The common practice used in KDE seems to be:
> >      for (a<space>:<space>b)
> 
> +1
> 
> Cheers
> Kai Uwe

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David Jarvie.
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