Re: Opinions on introduction of string_view in Core

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-10-18 01:10:05

Andrey Semashev wrote:
> Add an overload like this:
> 
>   #if !defined(BOOST_NO_CXX17_HDR_STRING_VIEW)
> 
>   inline std::string_view api_function( std::string_view str )
>   {
>     boost::string_view res = api_function(
>       boost::string_view(str.data(), str.size()));
>     return std::string_view(res.data(), res.size());
>   }
> 
>   #endif

As I said, all code that used to call the function with a std::string or
with a string literal is now broken under C++17.