On 17 February 2016 at 13:52, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

I have just removed boost::basic_string_ref from the develop branch, and updated the specializations to use basic_string_view.

Code that uses boost::string_ref (and wstring_ref) should continue to work as before.

The basic_string_view class better matches what the standards committee is doing and has WAY more constexpr support.

I'll be watching the testbots for results, but I believe that the only part of boost that was using basic_string_ref was Boost.Log, and that was switched over to basic_string_view in December.

That's a breaking change to a publicly available library. I'm not against it, but the impact is not necessarily minor. I've had code at a previous job which used basic_string_ref specifically. In C++11 builds, could you use an alias template to map boost::basic_string_ref to boost::basic_string_view? That might help mitigate some of the concerns. -- Nevin ":-)" Liber <mailto:nevin@cplusplusguy.com <nevin@eviloverlord.com>> +1-847-691-1404