Re: [boost] [string_ref] string literal constructor

On 8/11/2013 11:27, Quoth Nevin Liber:

On 7 November 2013 16:00, Gavin Lambert wrote:

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The first example in particular actually seems potentially dangerous to me, because the ability to handle the non-terminated string is "hidden", making it more likely that the author would forget and pass s to something else that's expecting a terminated string.

How does that differ from anything else that uses a C string?

I just don't see how string_ref is any worse.

The current version of string_ref is not any worse. What we're discussing here is a possible extra constructor, which I am saying is potentially useful but possibly too dangerous to be worthwhile.