Re: Should boost::core::string_view be made public?

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-02-08 13:31:03

On 2/8/24 15:56, Дмитрий Архипов via Boost wrote:
> чт, 8 февр. 2024 г. в 15:39, Daniele Lupo via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>:
>>
>> My two cents is that there are already a lot of strings and string_view
>> implementation out there. Exposing this does not add anything, but adds
>> only another type of string that must be handled.
> 
> The problem is that it has to be handled anyway, because it is used in
> the APIs of several Boost libraries.
> But currently the libraries essentially will have to pretend those are
> unrelated string_view types or reference
> an undocumented type from Core.

You could document a concept of a string view or at least list the
supported string types and use that in the documentation.