Glossary
This is a glossary of terms used in Qt discussions, code comments or commit messages. Feel free to add a stub entry if you run into one you can't make sense of, in hopes of someone else filling it in here.
For terms and concept names in documentation and messaging, see Qt Terms and Concepts.
B
BC
Binary compatible or binary compatibility
See also #SC
Build System
The set of project files and tools that are used to build Qt.
There's a separate Qt Build System Glossary.
D
DRY
Don't Repeat Yourself. Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself
See also #SCARY.
P
PMF
Pointer-to-Member Function, e.g. &foo::bar where foo is a class and bar() a member function.
Q
qsb
Qt Shader Baker https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtshadertools-qsb.html
QtCS
S
SC
Source compatible or source compatibility
See also #BC
SCARY
No-one can remember what the acronym stands for, not without googling, and even then it doesn't tell you much. Making a class or function template SCARY means to separate all that depends on the template arguments from all that doesn't depend on (some) template arguments, ensuring that identical code doesn't get recompiled over and over again for every instantiation of the template.
Cf. https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2019/08/02/the-tough-guide-to-cpp-acronyms/#scary-iterators
Originally merely coined for nested types like std::vector<T, A>::iterator (which never depends on A), it has come into use for other in-kind transformations, too, often being a special case of Extract Method or Extract Baseclass.
See also #DRY.
SEP
Someone else's problem. From Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide.
Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_else%27s_problem
SFINAE
Substitution Failure Is Not An Error
For details, see
- https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/sfinae
- https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2019/08/02/the-tough-guide-to-cpp-acronyms/#sfinae
SMF
Special Member Functions
See https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/member_functions#Special_member_functions
T
TQTC
The Qt Company