On Mar 24, 2017 08:23, "Simon Sasburg via Boost"
I'll also point out that that commit was in response to this bug report: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11740
I see. Using boost::string_ref in that way (local variable) would raise a big red flag for us. So i understand that the change does add some safety, but it also breaks usages that are completely fine. We 'solved' the safety issue with a really simple rule (only use boost::string_ref as function parameters). _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/ mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost That's exactly what I said in my blog post. Function parameters are a special use case that require a different type, that type is std::string_view, for everything else a boost::string_ref that doesn't bind to rvalues could be repurposed.