Re: [boost] Heads up - string_ref landing

Subject: Re: [boost] Heads up - string_ref landing
From: Maxim Yanchenko (maximyanchenko_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-11-16 09:50:06

Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard <at> ens-lyon.org> writes:

> > If this is all you need, just use plain references.
> 
> void f(std::string const&);
> f("Olaf");
> 
> does make a useless copy.

OK. I thought you were talking about Olaf's desire to have implicit conversion
from std::string.
For this we use just
f(char_range::literal("Olaf"));

If it's possible to detect in compile time that our argument is a literal, I'm
happy to make such a ctor implicit, but I doubt it's possible.

Maxim