From kde-core-devel  Wed Jul 25 18:07:47 2001
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:07:47 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: RFC: KConfig changes for 3.0
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=99608455120394

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 08:08:23PM +0200, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 July 2001 19:28, David Faure wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 07:40:18AM -0700, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > > In addition to Rob's comments, we should eliminate the obvious lack of OO
> > > safety in KConfig and always explicitly set a group when accessing a key.
> > >
> > > My personal favorite way is a group(QString) function that returns a
> > > temporary KConfigGroup.
> > >
> > > In other words
> > >
> > > config->group("Some Group Name")->readEntry("Some Key");
> >
> > This is an excellent, excellent idea.
> > And with a KConfigGroup * you could cache the value of config->group("Some
> > Group Name") in case you're reading multiple keys from it.
> > And it's not hard to keep source compat, with the readEntry and setGroup
> > still available in KConfigBase.
> > And it's not hard to implement either :)
> >
> > Yes yes yes, this gets a 100000% vote from me :)
> 
> I fully agree here too, but one question about the syntax: is operator 
> overloading a better way here? Like
> 
> - config->group("Some Group Name")->readEntry("Some Key");
> + config[ "Some Group Name" ][ "Some Key" ];
> 
> It seems to me that KDE dislikes this syntax, because it is hardly used, but 
> I wonder why.

Because it would have to be (*config)["group"], and this looks really ugly.

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