Quote Originally Posted by piotr.dobrogost View Post
Most C++ books recommend references whenever possible, according to the general perception that references are "safer and nicer" than pointers. In contrast, at Trolltech, we tend to prefer pointers because they make the user code more readable.


Yep, Trolltech always knows better.
Ah, come on! Remember what you have accused me, that I would think qtcentre is the only forum? And now your statement is that references are the only holy solution, and Qt uses this bad pointer stuff.

Beside, this are two possible and legal ways, which both have their advantages and disadvantages. There is objectively no right solution. This is how democracy work, majority and minor thought about one topic. This is also a issue with which Orwell has dealt in his Romans...

And your whole argumentation is very sarcastic and not always objective. If you don't like the Qt way you have two options, don't use it or change it. Qt is LGPL, so you have all freedom to alter the code.