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

On 2/8/24 15:56, Дмитрий Архипов via Boost wrote:

чт, 8 февр. 2024 г. в 15:39, Daniele Lupo via Boost :

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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.