Re: [boost] [string_ref] [utility] Add string_view?

Subject: Re: [boost] [string_ref] [utility] Add string_view?
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-07-08 10:43:21

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> On 7/7/2015 7:18 AM, Paul A. Bristow wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Beman
>>> Dawes
>>> Sent: 05 July 2015 13:34
>>> To: Boost Developers List
>>> Subject: [boost] [string_ref] [utility] Add string_view?
>>>
>>> Boost has shipped string_ref since 1.53. See
>>> www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_58_0/libs/utility/doc/html/string_ref.html
>>>
>>> In the meantime, the C++ committee has shipped a final version, named
>>> string_view, in the Library
>>> Fundamentals TS. See http://www.open-
>>> std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4480.html#string.view
>>>
>>> In addition to the name change, the interface in the TS more closely
>>> mimics the std::basic_string
>>> interface.
>>>
>>> I'd really like to see the final TS basic_string_view added to Boost so
>>> I can start using it now.
>>>
>>>
use a typedef for now; and I'll update the boost implementation post 1.59
release.

-- Marshall  (author of Boost.StringRef)