Doc: Improve documentation about append, prepend

The references to the this pointer look somewhat alien in the
documentation, because it isn't part of the signature. Rather make
the relationship explicit.

Change-Id: I6de516e165ea6e9c4ee2898836e9490fbaf4545c
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
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Kai Koehne 2017-07-03 13:08:47 +02:00
parent 7051572618
commit 627f0a7f7d

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@ -1516,13 +1516,13 @@ void QByteArray::chop(int n)
\snippet code/src_corelib_tools_qbytearray.cpp 12
Note: QByteArray is an \l{implicitly shared} class. Consequently,
if \e this is an empty QByteArray, then \e this will just share
the data held in \a ba. In this case, no copying of data is done,
if you append to an empty byte array, then the byte array will just
share the data held in \a ba. In this case, no copying of data is done,
taking \l{constant time}. If a shared instance is modified, it will
be copied (copy-on-write), taking \l{linear time}.
If \e this is not an empty QByteArray, a deep copy of the data is
performed, taking \l{linear time}.
If the byte array being appended to is not empty, a deep copy of the
data is performed, taking \l{linear time}.
This operation typically does not suffer from allocation overhead,
because QByteArray preallocates extra space at the end of the data
@ -1781,13 +1781,13 @@ QByteArray QByteArray::nulTerminated() const
This is the same as insert(0, \a ba).
Note: QByteArray is an \l{implicitly shared} class. Consequently,
if \e this is an empty QByteArray, then \e this will just share
the data held in \a ba. In this case, no copying of data is done,
if you prepend to an empty byte array, then the byte array will just
share the data held in \a ba. In this case, no copying of data is done,
taking \l{constant time}. If a shared instance is modified, it will
be copied (copy-on-write), taking \l{linear time}.
If \e this is not an empty QByteArray, a deep copy of the data is
performed, taking \l{linear time}.
If the byte array being prepended to is not empty, a deep copy of the
data is performed, taking \l{linear time}.
\sa append(), insert()
*/
@ -1869,13 +1869,13 @@ QByteArray &QByteArray::prepend(char ch)
This is the same as insert(size(), \a ba).
Note: QByteArray is an \l{implicitly shared} class. Consequently,
if \e this is an empty QByteArray, then \e this will just share
the data held in \a ba. In this case, no copying of data is done,
if you append to an empty byte array, then the byte array will just
share the data held in \a ba. In this case, no copying of data is done,
taking \l{constant time}. If a shared instance is modified, it will
be copied (copy-on-write), taking \l{linear time}.
If \e this is not an empty QByteArray, a deep copy of the data is
performed, taking \l{linear time}.
If the byte array being appended to is not empty, a deep copy of the
data is performed, taking \l{linear time}.
This operation typically does not suffer from allocation overhead,
because QByteArray preallocates extra space at the end of the data