Re: Request for comments: to_static_string

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-01-13 16:08:32

Ruben Perez wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Since we will be reviewing Boost.CharConv shortly, and my development
> efforts in Boost.MySQL are currently requiring converting numbers to strings,
> I've been playing with the utilities we currently have to do so.
> 
> I've found cases where I just needed to convert something to string, then pass
> the result to another function taking a string_view as parameter.
> The most efficient and correct way to do so is using to_chars (stack based,
> non-throwing, C++23 constexpr and locale-independent). But I still like the
> simplicity of std::to_string.
> 
> Since I had some free time this weekend, I took a step forward and
> implemented a (deadly simple) wrapper around to_chars that looks like
> std::to_string, but has all the benefits of to_chars. I called this to_static_string.
> Repo is here:
> 
> https://github.com/anarthal/to-static-string
> 
> This is currently a prototype. I want to hear everyone's opinion on this - do
> you think this may be useful to any of you? I don't think it's big enough to even
> consider putting it into Boost (my idea is having it as a standalone lib).
> Any comments are welcome.

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_84_0/libs/static_string/doc/html/static_string/ref/boost__static_strings__to_static_string.html