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

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-02-08 15:23:20

On 2/8/24 18:10, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Andrey Semashev wrote:
>> I'll add that this will not be a free transition for other libraries that support or
>> use string views. For example, in Boost.Log I support boost::string_view and
>> boost::string_ref but not boost::core::string_view. Not that it should be
>> difficult to switch, but it's work. It's more complicated if the library or tool is
>> unmaintained.
> 
> core::string_view is intended to be the single type you need to support. It
> converts from (and to) boost::string_view in addition to std::string_view.

No, conversion won't work as I need to detect string types and process
them specially (perform character code conversion). And for arbitrary
types I need to forward to the type's own operator<<.

https://github.com/boostorg/log/blob/develop/include/boost/log/utility/formatting_ostream.hpp#L558-L710

https://github.com/boostorg/log/blob/develop/include/boost/log/utility/formatting_ostream.hpp#L900-L959