Re: cstring_view

From: David Bien (davidbien_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-05-13 18:20:40

Exactly. But then it should just be called cstring_wrapper – calling it cstring_view seems to impart qualities to it that it doesn’t have – like I would assume that I could get a cstring_view that is a subview of an existing cstring_view for instance.

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From: Peter Dimov via Boost<mailto:boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2022 12:19 PM
To: boost_at_[hidden]<mailto:boost_at_[hidden]>
Cc: Peter Dimov<mailto:pdimov_at_[hidden]>
Subject: Re: [boost] cstring_view

Marshall Clow wrote:
> On May 13, 2022, at 10:42 AM, David Bien via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I guess when I read the impl I think to myself: What this is missing is a
> _length member. But then it just becomes boost::string_view.
> >
> > What value added is there to this impl except that it is smaller than
> boost::string_view due to lacking a _length member?
>
> If you’re careful and don’t do much with it, it can hand you back a null
> terminated string.

???

In what scenarios will it not give you a null-terminated string?

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