> That brings us straight back to the fundamental question: Why can the C++ > world at large cope with containers that are not CoW and Qt cannot? The only > answer I have is "because Qt never tried".
I started using STL 20 years ago, and Qt 8 years ago. Both intensively. My experience is simple: unless performance is the priority (5% of the cases?), the convenience of Qt COW containers outclasses the "convenience" of STL containers. Value-semantics is optimally implemented with implicitly shared containers. And IMHO, a strengh of Qt. Philippe _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
