Re: [Boost-users] [Signals] Relationships to other libraries and terms

In article , Scott Meyers wrote:

Also, does anybody know where the name "slot" comes from in this context? I've found this term to be a stumbling block for trying to understand this stuff.

Don't know if it is the first use of the term, but it has for many years been used by the Qt GUI library (the basis of KDE). Qt uses a custom C++ preprocessor to generate event-handling code, which treats 'signals', 'slots' and 'emit' as keywords. http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/signalsandslots.html http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/templates.html Will Watts