On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 8:27 AM, james <dirtydroog@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

I'm curious about the decision taken to not allow string_ref to modify the data it represents.
I'm modifying our JSON parser to use it, and sometimes I need to normalise a field to
uppercase or lowercase. Obviously I cannot now do this without making a copy of the normalised field somewhere with either std::string or boost::string_ref.


Consider the following code:

      const char *foo = "abcdef";
      string_ref sr{foo, 6};


Given only "sr", how can you tell if it is possible to change the contents ?

-- Marshall