Member function empty() missing in some containers

[bobhairgrove]

QList<> has empty(); QString and QByteArray do not. This makes it difficult to write portable code where these containers are actually typedef'd as either QString or std::string, QByteArray or std::vector<char> depending on whether or not the program is using Qt.

Of course, we can use size(), but this is sometimes not very efficient if there is a lot of data in a vector or string. Scott Meyers, for example, recommends calling empty() if we don't need (or want) to know the actual size of a container's data.

Would this break a lot of existing code if Qt added empty() to these containers?

[bobhairgrove]

I saw that QVector also has empty(), and it also guarantees that its elements are adjacent in memory. I will use it to replace std::vector.