On 27 November 2012 03:03, Yanchenko Maxim <maximyanchenko@yandex.ru> wrote:
26.11.12, 20:54, "Daniel James" <dnljms@gmail.com>":
Shouldn't construction from an arbitrary range be explicit? Arbitrary implicit conversions are problematic. To get implicit construction from third party strings, I'd use some sort of explicit customisation mechanism.
Hi Daniel, I'm fully with you here. The construction of string_ref should be explicit (except maybe literals if we can detect them in compile time) as we're giving away pointers to something that is externally managed.
Sorry, I must have not been clear enough, since a few people seem to have misunderstood me. I think that string_ref should be implicitly convertible from appropriate strings, explicitly convertible from other types. Implicit conversion from third party strings could be supported by customisation.